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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NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | For the whole Year. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brought forward | 731 | 1594 | 1366 | 1622 | 5313 |
Urinals cleansed | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 2 |
„ new ones furnished | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 3 |
„ white-washed | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
Vaults white-washed | 1 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 21 |
„ deodorised | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
Vegetable refuse removed | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Water stopped from entering houses & premises from street | 3 | 7 | 4 | .. | 14 |
„ „ „ „ „ through roof | 3 | .. | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Water-closets lime-whited | 13 | 100 | 52 | 12 | 177 |
„ furnished with a supply of water | 10 | 21 | 22 | 20 | 73 |
„ pans cleansed of soil | 31 | 19 | 18 | 25 | 93 |
„ „ foul ones cleansed | 7 | 17 | 24 | 11 | 59 |
„ cleansed generally | 112 | 165 | 102 | 242 | 621 |
„ soil pipes repaired | 1 | 4 | .. | 1 | 6 |
„ service pipes repaired | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 19 |
,, seats, new ones furnished | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
,, repaired | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
„ raisers, new ones furnished | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 11 |
„ „ repaired | .. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
„ floors, new ones furnished | .. | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 |
„ „ repaired | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 2 |
„ pans, new ones furnished | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
„ ,, repaired | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
„ traps, new ones furnished | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
„ apparatus of, repaired | 13 | 16 | 21 | 18 | 68 |
„ repaired generally | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
„ rebuilt „ | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 3 |
„ new ones furnished | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | 5 |
„ abolished | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 2 |
,, lighting and ventilation of, improved | 2 | 3 | 1 | .. | 6 |
„ lighted and ventilated with gas | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 |
„ doors furnished to | l | .. | 3 | 2 | 6 |
„ deodorised | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 20 |
Wash-houses, walls and ceilings white-washed | .. | 3 | .. | 1 | 4 |
Wearing apparel disinfected and washed | 6 | 301 | 542 | 289 | 1138 |
„ „ foul, washed | .. | 11 | .. | 35 | 46 |
„ „ ,, destroyed | .. | 4 | .. | .. | 4 |
Wells abolished | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Windows, sashes of, made to come down from top | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 3 |
Carried forward | 950 | 2332 | 2207 | 2314 | 7803 |