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. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brought forward | 372 | 39 | 971 | 537 | 2271 |
Rooms overcrowded abated | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 8 |
floors of repaired and cleansed | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Roofs, repaired | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
Rooms, ventilation improved | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Services pipes, new ones furnished | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ repaired | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sink stones, traps furnished to | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ ,, waste pipes disconnected from drain | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 |
,, „ new pipes and traps furnished to | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ „ unstopped and cleansed | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Staircases whitewashed and cleansed | 4 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 32 |
„ steps of, oleansed | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
„ repaired | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stables, cleansed and whitewashed | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
„ paving of, cleansed, and repaired | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Smoke, nuisance from abated | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Urinals (private) whitewashed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ cleansed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
,, furnished with water supply | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Vaults, whitewashed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Water-closets, cleansed generally | 2 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 28 |
,, , furnished with water | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
,, ,, „ ,, new apparatus | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
„ ,, apparatus repaired | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
,, „ new pans furnished to | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
„ ,, pans cleansed | 10 | 8 | 2 | 22 | |
„ „ seat raisers, furnished to | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ „ water supply reinstated | 2 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 21 |
„ ,, repaired generally | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
„ abolished | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ „ soil pipes new. furnished to | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
„ „ ,, ventilated | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
„ „ reconstructed | 3 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 18 |
,, „ new erected | 3 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 29 |
„ „ light and ventilation improved | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
„ ., soil pipes unstopped and repaired | 9 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 32 |
., „ traps furnished to | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
Water stopped from running as a nuisance | 2 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 19 |
Water, separate supply for drinking purposes provided | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Wash-houses, whitewashed and cleansed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wearing apparel disinfected | 166 | 96 | 498 | 109 | 869 |
Workshops whitewashed and cleansed | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
Workshops, ventilation improved | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Yards whitewashed | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
„ paving of, cleansed | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 13 |
„ „ repaired | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
,, new trap to drain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Total | 587 | 598 | 1580 | 734 | 3499 |
WILLIAM HILL WATSON, Chief Sanitary Inspector.