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 Bethnal Green]
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Work executed in compliance with Notices served
Houses and premises cleansed and purified 1,090
Cases in which defective drainage has been remedied 906
Closets cleansed and purified 1,072
Urinals cleansed and flushed 96
Closet accommodation provided 6
Removals of accumulations of dust, manure, and other offensive
matter 7,363
Animals removed in consequence of being a nuisance, or kept in
a condition injurious to public health 55
Fever cases attended to 93
I have much pleasure in reporting most favourably upon the manner
in which the inspectors perform their duties, which are of a sufficiently
disagreeable and multifarious nature. Every help and assistance
in their power has been freely given me, for which I take this opportunity
of thanking them.
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest.—The
following is the Medical Report for the year 1875 :—
in-patients.
Patients under treatment on the 1st January, 1875 99
Admitted since 708— 807
Remaining under treatment on the 31st December, 1875 107
Total under treatment during the year 700
Of these there have been—More or less relieved 644
Died 56
Patients admitted from the opening of the "Wards, in 1855, to the 31st
December 1875 10,981
Average number resident throughout the year 76
out-patients.
Under treatment on the 1st January, 1875 1,156
Admitted since 14,169
15.325
Remaining under treatment on the 31st December, 1875 1,094
14,331
Patients admitted from the opening of the Institution, in 1848,'to the
31st December, 1875 252,207
Average attendance of Out-Patients each week 1,210.
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| Moss, John | 3, Essex street | 5 | Defective | fairly good | fairly good | Dung pit dadry constructed. |
| Bunn, John | 35, Lisbon street | 11 | Fairly good | Good | Defective | Underground tank used for storing water; very bad arrangement. |
| Bogos, George | 15, Norfolk street | 6 | Fairly good | Fairly good | Fairly good | Water supply from cistern over W.C., waste pipe of which communicates with same. |
| Rees, William | Summerfield street | 2 | Defective | Bad | Bad | |
| Chamberlain, William | 81, Brady street | 2 | Fairly good | Fairly good | Bad | |
| Holloway, William | 25, Arundel street | None | Defective | Fairly good | Defective | Dung pit of bad construction. Cows lookparticularly well cared for. |
| Seaward, John | 2, Ann's place | 2 | Fairly good | I airly good | Defective | |
| Meredith, Evan | 32, Edward street | 18 | Good | Good | Good | |
| Hill, William | 46, Edward street | 12 | Defective | Good | Defective | Water supply from well in yard. |
| Jones, Evan | 100, Sclater street | 9 | Good | Bad | Good | |
| Petit, William | 9, Club row | 3 | Good | Good | Good | |
| Petit, William | 24, Bacon street | 12 | Defective | Fairly good | Good | |
| Hodges, William M | 34B, Green street, and Digby street | 80 | Uneven | Good | Good | Dung pit of bad construction. |
| Mansfield, William | 7½, Digby street | 16 | Defective | Bad | Bad | Yard used as a dust shoot for Mile End Parish. |
| Griffiths, Humphrey | 6, Warley street | 14 | Good | Good | Good | |
| Jones, Edward | Hamilton road | 11 | Fairly good | Good | Good | |
| Elliott, John | Roman road | 21 | Good | Good | Good | |
| Wright, Thomas | Bridge Wharf, Old Ford road | 6 | Fairly good | Good | Good | |
| Champness Brothers | 5, Russia lane | 9 | Bad | Good | Good | Very short of room : shed too small for number of cows kept. |
| Mott, Ephraim | Russia lane | Not used | Bad | Imperfect | Bad | Whole place in a very dilapidated condition. |
| Day, Thomas Hanchard | 21, West street | 39 | Good | Bad | Good | Cow shed too low: loft overhead should be abolished. |
| Skinner, Frederick | 18, Prospect place | 4 | Defective | Good | Good | |
| Bailey, Mary | 17, Coventry street | None | Defective | Defective | Defective | |
| Wisby, Samuel | 87, Railway arch, Three Colt's lane | None | Defective | Defective | Fair | |
| Farrow, James | 479, Bethnal Green road | 1 | Bad | Good | Good | Water supply from cistern over W.C., waste pipe of which communicates with same. |
| Griffiths, John | 23, Temple street | 4 | Defective | Defective | Good |