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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1871
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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RETURN shewing the Works executed, and Improvements effected in the Parish of St. Pancras, under the supervision of the Sanitary Officers during the year ending December 31st, 1871.
| Name of Sanitary Inspector. | Overcrowdings abated. | Bakehouses cleansed. | Cesspools abolished. | Houses, Rooms, Yard, &c., cleansed and repaired. | Paving repaired. | Drains. | Water Closets. | Water Receptacle. | Dust Bins. | Domestic water supply provided. | Refuse removed from premises. | Pigs and other animals removed. | Smoke nuisances abated. | Manure removed. | Dung Pits abolished. | Total. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New. | Trapped. | Repaired and cleansed. | New Water Closets erected. | Repaired and cleansed. | Water laid on. | New one's provided. | Repaired. | New. | Repaired. | |||||||||||||
| J. Hartley | 10 | 12 | 17 | 330 | 92 | 17 | 179 | 81 | 4 | 178 | 167 | 4 | 71 | 41 | 40 | 9 | 26 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1294 |
| W. Rouch | 6 | 12 | 10 | 225 | 38 | 15 | 85 | 70 | 4 | 110 | 90 | 0 | 18 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 727 |
| J. C. Biorn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 190 | 13 | 0 | 54 | 4 | 0 | 38 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 347 |
| Total | 16 | 24 | 27 | 745 | 143 | 32 | 318 | 155 | 8 | 326 | 293 | 5 | 90 | 58 | 53 | 13 | 35 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2368 |