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St George (Westminster) 1874
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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Sanitary Work.
For the Year ending March 31st, 1875.
The following Table (VI.) has been compiled for me by
Mr. Dickson, your Sanitary Inspector: but it does not show
a large number of minor complaints which had to be
attended to, and only gives an incomplete idea of the large
number of visits of inspection that had to be made.
The number of houses, or parts of houses, which were
disinfected after cases of infectious disease, was much
larger than last year, and includes 51 after scarlet fever, 2
after small-pox, and 1 after typhus fever.
Table VI.
| Total number of complaints | 480 |
| Notices served | 160 |
| Houses and premises limewhited and general repairs | 99 |
| Houses disinfected after infectious diseases | 54 |
| Drains trapped, ventilated, &c.; sinks repaired, and in some cases new pipes | 23 |
| Closets supplied with water | 72 |
| Dust bins renewed, repaired, new covers, &c. | 42 |
| Cisterns repaired, new covers, &c. | 6 |
| Removal of animals improperly kept (cases of) | 2 |
| Meat and fish condemned (cases of) | 8 |
| Drains and closets unstopped | 28 |
| Overcrowding abated | 7 |