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Hackney 1861

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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REPORT.
To the Board of Works for the Hackney District.
Gentlemen,
During this Quarter I have made numerous house to house visitations, as
well as inspected many isolated houses and premises. Amongst others,
I would mention Urban-place; Pickle's-buildings; the Conservative Land
Society's Ground at Homerton; John-street; Wellington-street; Orchardplace;
Clarence-road; Needham-terrace; World's-end, Upper Clapton;
Ebenezer-place; James's-place; Peartree-place; King's-head-yard, Clapton;
Lansdown-place, London-fields; Coldbath-lane; Church-terrace, Homerton;
Caroline-street; Nelson-terrace; Jerusalem-square; Exmouthplace;
High-street, Homerton; Navarino-road; Charles-street, Dalston;
Francis-yard; Orchard-street; Brook-street; George-street; Grove-lane;
Plough-lane; Saxony-cottages; Albert-street; Devonshire-place; Greenlanes;
Homerton-terrace; College-street; numerous houses in the vicinity
of the River Lea; Sandford-place; Hayne's-court; Williams's-cottages;
Sandford-lane; Draper's-court; Henry-street; Cock-and-Castle-lane;
Pond-lane; Havelock-road; James's-place; Kossuth-terrace; Albionroad;
Palace-cottages; Tottenham-road; Greenwood-row; Winn's
Dust-yard; Larter's-yard; numerous cow-houses, piggeries, &c. As
these places have been previously mentioned in my Reports to the Board,
I need not detail the nuisances which I found, or the course adopted to
remove them.