Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Brought forward 9706
Number of Houses disinfected 455
Number of Houses overcrowded 15
Number of Premises from which Pigs were
removed 13
Number of Premises from which stable dung and
other refuse were removed (excluding dust) 97
Number of filthy places cleaned 87
Number of other Nuisances removed 481
1148
Total number of Nuisances abated in 1883 11,054
Number of Lodging Houses' Notices served 43
„ „ Notices for disinfecting premises 455
„ „ Preliminary Notices served 3744
„ „ Peremptory „ „ 1161
„ „ Statutory „ „ 3916
9319
Number of Letters sent out 1767
„ „ Persons summoned before a Magistrate 47
„ „ Copies of Summonses and Orders made
out 252
„ „ Requests to remove Dust received and
attended to 1445
„ „ Bodies deposited and taken to the
Mortuary 52
„ „ Houses from which Bedding, &c., was
removed to be Disinfected at the
Board's apparatus 357
„ „ Articles Disinfected at the Board's
apparatus 3074
„ „ Fish condemned unfit for human food
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