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St James's 1880

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]

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ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER.
APPENDIX TO REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,

Table: TABLE OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WOREDURING THE YEAR 1880.

TABLE OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORE

DURING THE YEAR 1880.

NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.For the whole Year.
Areas, front, lime-whited466565131
„ back „466438121
„ front, paving of, cleansed1483..25
,, back „ „742518
„ front „ deodorised1211201255
„ back „ „1211161150
Basements, walls and ceilings of, lime-whited..108..18
„ floors of, repaired „..1....1
„ „ cleansed52....7
Beds disinfected in Fraser's chamber21133262128
„ „ with sulphur9....1120
„ washed2..2..4
Bed clothes, disinfected in Fraser's chamber, in lots of11792451
„ „ with sulpher3....69
„ „ fluid and washed31161434
Butts or cisterns cleansed....224
„ new ones furnished131914
„ repaired1..124
„ covers furnished to..31..4
„ apparatus of, repaired1....12
„ supply pipes repaired1......1
Corpse coffined and deodorised..1....1
Courts, walls of, lime-whited..66..12
Dangerous structures made safe....2..2
Dilapidations, exterior, made good11114
*Dogs removed, in lots of....1..1
Drains of 9-inch pipes, new ones furnished1......1
„ reconstructed with 9-inch pipes....112
„ „ 6 ,,32218
,, „ 4 ,,22..15
Carried forward108218225176737
* 4 Dogs.