Hamilton Guidon in Hamilton, Ohio

Third Annual Report of Hamilton Board of Health

The Hamilton Board of Health submits the annual sanitary report for the year ending December 31, 1874. It praises the city’s sanitation, notes abatement of nuisances at Hahn’s slaughterhouse and two First Ward slaughter houses, and outlines actions on sewers, hog farming, the Stencil Factory, and dead-animal removal. It details nuisance reductions, court actions over nonpayment of abatement costs, and the impact of measures on public health including low mortality and a summary of deaths for 1874.