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To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
The Index to the Quarterly and Annual Reports, extending from October,
1856, to June, 1879, inclusive, has reference not only to the Sanitary Work which
has been carried out during the last twenty-three years, but it also embraces some
particulars of the Sanitary Condition of the District before the formation of your
Board, and has reference to several Nuisances which were suppressed by the
authority of the Board of Guardians, and contains a few particulars respecting the
Displacement of Large Populations by the Formation of the Docks, Commercial
Street, Blackwall Railway, &c.
The Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act (1868) Amendment Act 1879, in
Section 14, gives power to the Local Authority to Open-out Closed or Partially
Closed Alleys or Courts inhabited by the Labouring Classes, and to Widen the
same, by pulling down any building or otherwise, leaving such Open Spaces as
may be necessary, to make such Alleys or Courts healthful. Similar recommendations
were made by me in my Reports for December, 1856, Page 4, January, 1858,
Page 7, and March, 1872, Page 12.
September '29th, 1879. JOHN LIDDLE.
CONTENTS.
The First Volume contains the Reports of the Medical Officer of Health,
from October, 1856, to December, 1867.
The Second Volume contains the Reports from March, 1868, to June, 1879.
The Third Volume contains the following Special Reports and the General Index
to all the Reports, from Oct., 1856, to June, 1879, inclusive:—
I.—Table, dated 1857, shows the Streets and other localities in the District which
are with or without Sewers, and whether within 100 feet of an available
Sewer, the state of repair of each Sewer, its size, depth from the surface,
and the condition of the Surface Drainage, and the Number of Houses
in each Street or Place.
II.—Report on the Epidemic Cholera in 1866.
III.—Report of Professor Simonds on the Cow-houses within the Whitechapel
District.—1868.
IV.—Report on the necessity of retaining the present Staff of Four Inspectors of
Nuisances.—1868.
V.— Dr. Budd's Directions how to Prevent Typhoid Fever and Scarlet Fever from
spreading.—1869.
VI.—Report on the Epidemic of Small-pox, in 1871, by Mr. J. Liddle, with Suggestions
for the Amendment of the Vaccination Act of 1867, by Mr. W.
Vallauce. —1871.