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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REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORE
FOR THE YEAR 1870.
NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | For the whole Year. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Animal matter removed | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Areas, front, lime-whited | 10 | 41 | 26 | 10 | 87 |
„ back ,, | 5 | 34 | 16 | 4 | 59 |
„ front, paving of, cleansed | 28 | 22 | 22 | 18 | 90 |
„ back ,, | 3 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 19 |
„ front „ repaired | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 |
„ back ,, ,, | .. | 2 | 3 | .. | 5 |
„ „ „ deodorised | .. | 4 | .. | .. | 4 |
Basement rooms, walls and ceilings white-washed | 1 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 25 |
„ „ floors of, washed | 7 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 30 |
„ „ „ repaired | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 3 |
„ stairs, walls and ceilings white-washed | 16 | 51 | 28 | 16 | 111 |
„ ,, washed | 8 | 22 | 8 | 19 | 57 |
„ „ paint work washed | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
„ passages, walls and ceilings white-washed | 10 | 24 | 13 | 7 | 54 |
„ „ floors of, washed | 5 | .. | 13 | .. | 18 |
Beds foul, washed .. .. .. .. | 20 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 32 |
„ „ destroyed | 1 | 4 | 6 | .. | 11 |
„ disinfected | 1 | 6 | 5 | 25 | 37 |
„ clothes of, foul, washed | .. | 39 | 51 | .. | 90 |
„ „ „ disinfected and washed | 97 | 40 | 124 | 372 | 633 |
„ „ „ destroyed | 1 | 20 | .. | .. | 21 |
Bones, stale, removed | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 2 |
„ „ deodorised | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
Butts or cisterns cleansed | 1 | 57 | 12 | 2 | 72 |
,, „ repaired | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
„ „ new ones furnished | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
„ „ covers furnished to | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
„ repaired | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | 3 |
„ „ apparatus of, repaired | 3 | .. | 9 | 2 | 14 |
Cesspools cleaned out and filled up | .. | 4 | 2 | .. | 6 |
Carpets disinfected | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 3 |
Corpse, human, removed by order | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
„ „ disinfected | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 |
Courts, walls of, white-washed | .. | 6 | 2 | .. | 8 |
„ paving of, cleansed | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
Carried forward | 226 | 420 | 382 | 502 | 1530 |
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