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 1885
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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| Brought forward | 3903 | |
| Number of Houses disinfected | 608 | |
| Number of cases of overcrowding abated | 24 | |
| Number of Premises from which Pigs were removed | 36 | |
| Number of Premises from which stable dung and other refuse were removed (excluding dust) | 93 | |
| Number of filthy places cleansed | 89 | |
| Number of other Nuisances removed (having no special heading) | 898 | |
| 1748 | ||
| Total number of Nuisances abated in 1885 | 10651 | |
| Number of Accumulations of Dust specially removed | 1238 | |
| „ „ Lodging Houses' Notices served | 106 | |
| „ „ Notices for disinfecting premises | 608 | |
| „ „ Preliminary Notices served | 4816 | |
| „ „ Peremptory „ | 851 | |
| Statutory „ „ | 1354 | |
| Number of Letters sent out | 1965 | |
| „ „ Persons summoned before a Magistrate | 19 | |
| „ „ Copies of Summonses and Orders made out. . | 114 | |
| „ „ Bodies deposited and taken to the Mortuary | 69 | |
| „ „ Houses from which Bedding, &c., was removed to be Disinfected at the Board's apparatus | 504 | |
| „ „ Articles Disinfected at the Board's apparatus „ „ Packets and Bottles of Disinfectants supplied | 3553 | |
| to the Poor | 5138 | |
| „ „ Fish condemned unfit for human food (pads) | 37 | |
* Many persons send requests here for removal of dust instead of placing the
D cards in the window. All these, as well as complaints of non-removal, are
included in the above.