London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1872
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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| Choked Drains cleansed and repaired, or re-laid | 274 | |
| New Traps provided | 272 | |
| Yards drained | 70 | |
| Privy pans choked | 76 | |
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| Total number of nuisances from defective drainage | 719 | |
| Yards paved or paving re-laid | 130 | |
| Houses repaired, white-washed, &c. | 2021 | |
| Number of Dust Bins provided | 335 | |
| No. of houses in which the ventilation has been improved | 9 | |
| ,, to which a better supply of water has been given | 160 | |
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| Total number of nuisances from defect in houses | 2655 | |
| Number of houses disinfected | 213 | |
| „ „ overcrowded | 31 | |
| Pigs removed | 32 | |
| Stable Dung and other refuse removed | 83 | |
| Filthy places cleansed | 54 | |
| Other nuisances removed | 122 | |
| - | 535 | |
| Total number of nuisances abated | 3909 | |
Number of Lodging Houses' Notices served 106
„ Notices for Disinfection and cleansing premises 213
„ Letters sent out 605
„ Preliminary notices served 3462
„ Peremptory „ 1396
„ Statutory ,, 766
,, Persons summoned before a Magistrate 72
„ Copies of summonses and orders made out 432
,, Dust complaints received and attended to 2603
„ Bodies deposited and taken to the Mortuary 47
,, Houses from which Bedding, &c., removed and
disinfected at Board's Apparatus 87
„ Articles disinfected at Board's Apparatus 928
„ Fish condemned unfit for human food pads 23
„ Carcases of pigs condemned unfit for human food
and several putrid tongues 18