Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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 |