Extracts from the Medical Officer of Health Report Books 1866-1900

Reference Number: PP/984
Level of Description: Item
Title: Extracts from the Medical Officer of Health Report Books 1866-1900
Date: 2001
Description: In-depth descriptions of numerous streets and individual dwellings within the city visited by the medical officer and including information on sanitation, water supply, privies and water closets, lodging houses, wells, drainage, the keeping of animals (particularly pigs), slaughterhouses, bakehouses and the causes and spread of various diseases (particularly typhoid fever). Extracts transcribed from the originals by Sheila Metcalfe
Subject: Diseases
Public health
Sanitation
Water supply