Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. James's, Westminster]
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PARISH OF ST. JAMES, WESTMINSTER.
APPENDIX TO REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
TABLE III.—ABSTRACT OF WORKS DONE BY SANITARY INSPECTORS DURING THE YEAR, 1889.
NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | For the whole year. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Animals, Nuisance from, abated | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Areas, whitewashed and cleansed | 0 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
„ paving of, repaired | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Basements, whitewashed and cleansed | 5 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 35 |
„ floors, repaired and cleansed | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
„ lighted and ventilated | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Baths, traps furnished to | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Beds, disinfected | 19 | 14 | 42 | 32 | 107 |
Bedclothes, disinfected | 88 | 72 | 220 | 124 | 504 |
Bell traps, removed | 13 | 24 | 25 | 13 | 75 |
Carpets, disinfected | 4 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 27 |
Cisterns, cleansed | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
,, new ones provided | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
„ covers furnished to | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
., repaired generally | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
., apparatus repaired | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Cesspools, abolished | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Drains, re-constructed with glazed pipes and ventilated | 9 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 29 |
,, unstopped | 2 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 18 |
„ repaired | 3 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 20 |
„ traps furnished to | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ earthenware gully traps furnished to | 10 | 20 | 28 | 20 | 78 |
Dustbins, repaired | 0 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 16 |
., new ones provided | 5 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 29 |
Food, unsound seized and condemned | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Foul matter, removed | 12 | 13 | 28 | 9 | 62 |
Gutters, cleansed and repaired | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
„ new ones furnished | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Houses, furnished with water supply | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
„ water supply reinstated | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
„ closed unfit for human habitation | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
,. ventilation improved | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Kitchens, whitewashed | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 11 |
,, underground cleared of occupants | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
Lead flats, roofs cleansed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
., repaired | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mattresses, disinfected | 9 | 1 | 17 | 15 | 42 |
Manure, removed | 1 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 16 |
Miscellaneous articles disinfected | 104 | 64 | 312 | 89 | 569 |
Passages, whitewashed and cleansed | 2 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 19 |
„ floors of repaired and cleansed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pillows, disinfected | 37 | 29 | 103 | 70 | 245 |
Rain water pipes, new ones furnished | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
,, ,, unstopped, cleansed and repaired | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
„ „ disconnected from drain | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 |
Rooms, whitewashed and cleansed | 22 | 35 | 53 | 60 | 170 |
,, disinfected | 15 | 23 | 41 | 27 | 106 |
Carried forward | 372 | 391 | 971 | 537 | 2,271 |