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Whitechapel 1879

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Registered common lodging houses, number ofOct. 18566
Jan, 18709 & 10
„ „ „ ,, first established in 1851 when there were no Medical Officers of HealthJuly, 187610
„ „ „ „ condition of, improvedJan. 18709 & 10
Dec. 187813
„ „ „ „ 86.4 per cent, over- crowdedJan. 187610 & 11
Dec. 187813
„ „ ,, „ sanitary defects thereinJan. 187010
„ „ „ ,, formerly considered) the beau-ideal of perfection„ „11
„ „ „ „ the law relating to, ) should be amended.„ „12
„ „ ,, „ letter from Medical Officer of PrivyCoun-cil setting forth the duties of Medical Officers of Health as regards com. lodg hses.„ „13 '
„ „ „ „ increase ofJuly, 187112
„ „ „ „ a fifteenth part of the entire population of this District sleep therein at night„ „10
„ „ „ „ letter of Medical Of ficer of Health to Capt.Harris,Sctl.Yd.April, 187615 & 16
July,8, 9, & 10
Registration of the causes of death (in the London Hos- pital) faultyJune, 18574
,, of births not being compulsory, many chil- dren are not vaccinatedDec. 187021
„ of houses not made compulsorySept. 186712 & 13
„ of cases of sickness187215
,, of births defectiveJune, 18578
Sept. ,,6 8e 15
July, 185815
„ 18694
„ „ compulsory in Scotland and in j IrelandSept. 18628
March,186310
Sept. 18666
June, 18613
„ Districts definedJan. 185819
„ of housesJune, 1866 .9
Sept. 186712
„ „ let out in tenements recommendedDec. 186810
„ of deaths and cases of sickness recom- mended by Medical Officer of Health in the year 1848 and commenced by Dr. Con- way Evans, 1859Sept. 187215 & 16