Report on the sanitary condition & public health of Mile End Old Town, for the year ending March the 30th, 1867 / by Matthew Corner.

  • Corner, Matthew.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition & public health of Mile End Old Town, for the year ending March the 30th, 1867 / by Matthew Corner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    REPORT. TO THE Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile Enh Old Towk. Gentlemen, In this Report, I purpose to review briefly, the pro- ceedings of the health department of the Vestry, during the year ending March, 1867 ; to notice the present sanitary condition of the Hamlet, and to make passing allusion to, or comments upon, any subject of interest to the public health. I have prepared tables in a way which I consider will give you, at a glance, a clear insight as to the births and deaths for the year, compared with previous years, and the relative rates of births and deaths compared with other places. I have pre- pared a special table for deaths from zymotic diseases, as it is by their variation, rise or fall, that we can best judge of the results produced by our sanitary mea- sures. At each meeting of the Committee, I have presented and read Reports upon the current mortality and sani- tary condition of the Hamlet, upon subjects continually arising of importance to the general health—such as nuisances dangerous to health, or supposed to be so, and upon numerous special matters, which it is neither necessary nor desirable, in all cases to particularize. I Will only allude, in the course of this report, to those of greatest general interest. By the Report of the In- spector of Nuisances, appended to this, you will see