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.—INSPECTORS' WORK DURING THE YEAR 1886.
Areas, limewhited | 3 | 11 | 16 | 8 | 38 |
„ paving of, cleansed | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
„ „ repaired | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 11 |
Basements, limewhited | 3 | 7 | 22 | 8 | 40 |
„ floors repaired and cleansed | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 |
Beds disinfected | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 21 |
Bedclothes disinfected | 38 | 21 | 23 | 45 | 122 |
Cisterns cleansed | 2 | ... | 7 | 6 | 15 |
„ new ones furnished | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
„ covers furnished to | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
„ apparatus and warning pipe | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
Drains reconstructed with glazed pipes | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 12 |
„ unstopped, cleansed and repaired | 5 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 29 |
„ traps furnished to | 2 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 37 |
Dustbins repaired | 1 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 19 |
„ new ones furnished | ... | ... | 4 | 1 | 5 |
Foul matter removed | 17 | 11 | 19 | 8 | 55 |
Gutters, cleansed and repaired | 8 | ... | 2 | ... | 5 |
„ new ones furnished | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Houses furnished with a water supply | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | 2 |
Kitchens, limewhited | 2 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 29 |
„ occupied contrary to law, cleared | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 2 |
Lead flats and roofs, cleansed | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
„ „ „ „ repaired | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Mattresses disinfected | 8 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 34 |
Miscellaneous articles disinfected | 5 | 19 | 30 | 50 | 104 |
Pillows, disinfected | 19 | 14 | 21 | 14 | 68 |
Passages, entrance whitewashed and cleansed | 1 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 28 |
„ basement „ „ | ... | 7 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
„ „ floors of, repaired and cleansed | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
Rain-water pipes, new ones furnished | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 |
„ unstopped, cleansed and repaired | 5 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 22 |
„ „ disconnected from drains | 1 | ... | ... | 3 | 4 |
Rooms, whitewashed and cleansed | 3 | 10 | 13 | 46 | 102 |
„ disinfected with sulphur | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 17 |
„ roofs repaired | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | 2 |
Carried forward | 136 | 189 | 286 | 286 | 897 |
EDWIN BROOKS and Inspectores of
WILLIAM HILL WATSON, NUISANCE