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 1881
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Number of Public Schools inspected 39
„ Notices served on Houses Flooded at
Clapton Park and Hackney Wick 494
„ Lodging Houses' Notices served 31
„ Notices for Disinfecting premises 1343
„ Preliminary Notices served 5040
„ Peremptory „ 3812
„ Statutory „ 1477
12,197
Number of Letters sent out 1882
„ Persons summoned before a Magistrate 35
„ Copies of Summonses and Orders made
out 210
„ Requests to remove Dust received and
attended to 2969
„ Bodies deposited and taken to the
Mortuary 82
„ Houses from which Bedding, &o., was
removed to be Disinfected at the
Board's apparatus 1045
„ Articles Disinfected at the Board's
apparatus 6582
„ Fish condemned unfit for human food
—pads 11
PREMISES INSPECTED DURING THE YEAR.
Number of Houses inspected under the Sanitary
Act, 1866 4996
„ Houses in which infectious diseases
had appeared 1343
„ Premises inspected from complaints
received 931
„ Cowsheds inspected 116
„ Slaughter-houses inspected 30
„ Greengrocers' yards inspected 173