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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Westminster 1899
Annual report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the united Parishes of St. Margaret & St. John, Westminster for the year 1899.
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Nuisances from the following have been abated, viz.:—
| Water-closets | 124 |
| Drains | 158 |
| Water apparatus | 143 |
| Dust receptacles | 84 |
| Premises in uncleanly condition | 213 |
| Overcrowding ... | 8 |
| Underground rooms illegally occupied | — |
| Premises improperly ventilated | 6 |
| Yard paving | 48 |
| Lime-whiting | 203 |
| Stables, cow-sheds, slaughter-houses and bake-houses | 23 |
| Houses in which infectious disease occurred | 89 |
| Animals improperly kept | 5 |
| Accumulation of manure, refuse, etc. | 24 |
| Receptacle for manure | 18 |
| Black smoke | 4 |
| Registration of houses let in lodgings | 1 |
| Miscellaneous | 190 |
| 1,341 |
Inspector Kirk's report for the year ending Dec. 31st, 1899, for Wards No. 3, St. Margaret, and No. 2., St. John the Evangelist, Westminster.
| Notices brought forward from 1898 | 46 |
| Inspections made | 1,006 |
| Re-inspections made | 781 |
| Defects found | 1,213 |
| Notices served | 665 |
| Works completed | 651 |
| Notices not complied with, 31st Dec., 1898 | 41 |
| Nuisances from the following have been abated: — | |
| Animals kept so as to be a nuisance | 3 |
| Accumulations of manure, etc. | 40 |
| Black smoke | 45 |
| Cisterns (dirty) | 22 |
| Cisterns (defective covers) | 15 |
| Dust receptacles (dilapidated and not in accordance with Bye-laws) | 15 |
| Dust (accumulations) | 31 |
| Drains (new, defective relaid, repaired, unstopped, and ventilated) | 74 |