London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

St James's 1894

Report for the year 1894 made to the Vestry of Saint James, Westminster

This page requires JavaScript

220
PARISH OF ST. JAMES, WESTMINSTER.
APPENDIX TO REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
TABLE III.—ABSTRACT OF WORK DONE BY
SANITARY INSPECTORS DURING THE YEAR 1896.
NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED.
First Quarter.
Second
Quater.
Third Quarter.
Fourth
Quater.
For the whole
Year.
Animals, Nuisances from, abated
0
2
0
0
2
Areas, whitewashed and cleansed
0
3
1
0
4
,, paving of, repaired
2
0
0
1
3
Basements, whitewashed and cleansed
8
12
9
18
47
,, floors, repaired and cleansed
2
1
2
4
9
,, lighted and ventilated
0
0
0
0
0
Baths, traps furnished to
0
0
0
0
0
Beds,, disinfected
14
17
22
19
72
Bedclothes, disinfected
125
88
209
147
569
Bell traps, removed
9
9
10
18
46
Carpets, disinfected
1
2
12
3
18
Cisterns, cleansed
0
3
3
3
9
,, new ones provided
0
1
0
0
1
,, covers furnished to
1
1
3
2
7
,, . repaired generally
0
0
0
1
1
,, apparatus repaired
0
0
0
0
0
Cesspools, abolished
0
0
0
0
0
Drains, reconstructed with glazed pipes and ventilated
10
14
8
19
51
,, unstopped
7
1
4
3
15
,, repaired
5
0
2
1
8
,, traps furnished to
0
0
1
0
1
,, earthenware gully traps furnished to
9
6
11
14
40
,, disconnected from sewer and ventilated
1
0
0
0
1
Dustbins, repaired
0
7
5
10
22
,, new ones provided
4
5
6
3
18
Foul matter removed
12
12
9
10
43
Food, unsound, seized and condemned
0
0
0
0
0
Gutters, cleansed and repaired
0
2
0
2
4
,, new ones furnished
0
0
0
1
1
Houses, furnished with water supply
0
0
0
0
0
,, water supply reinstated
1
1
0
1
3
,, closed unfit for human habitation
0
0
0
0
0
,, ventilation improved
0
0
0
0
0
Kitchens, whitewashed
0
3
0
2
5
,, underground cleared of occupants
2
1
2
5
10
Lead flats, roofs cleansed
0
0
0
0
0
,, ,, repaired
0
0
0
0
0
Mattresses, disinfected
36
18
30
33
117
Manure, removed
2
1
1
1
5
Miscellaneous articles disinfected
126
90
291
188
695
Passages, whitewashed and cleansed
2
8
5
4
19
„ floor of, repaired and cleansed
0
0
0
2
2
Pillows disinfected
97
45
115
87
344
Rain water pipes, new ones furnished
0
0
0
1
1
,, ,, unstopped, cleansed and repaired
6
5
3
9
23
,, ,, disconnected from drain
0
2
1
7
10
Rooms, whitewashed and cleansed
16
59
28
85
188
,, disinfected
34
26
44
29
133
,, overcrowded, abated
2
1
0
7
10
,, floors of, repaired and cleansed
0
0
1
0
1
Carried forward
534
456
838
740
2568