[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Torquay Borough.

  • Torquay (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Torquay Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    > t ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Medical Officer of Health FOR 1893. Mr. Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors,— In my last Annual Report I drew your attention to an inspection I had made of the district of Pimlico, and described the condition of things found there. You will be pleased to learn that during the past year radical changes have taken place in that very unsavoury neighbourhood. One tenement was closed with consent of the owner, four houses were closed by order of the magistrates, and all their back tenements have since been razed to the ground. These are still in process of reconstruction, and consequently remain empty. Three other miserable structures have also been pulled down, and the surfaces they covered converted into back yards ; and thus light and air are let into the backs of the houses of which they formed part.