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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
City of Westminster 1901
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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APPENDIX I.
Report of Chief Sanitary Inspector.
To the
Chairman and Members of the Public Health Committee.
Gentlemen,—
I have the honour to submit my Report on the work carried out
by your Sanitary Staff during the year ended 31st December, 1901.
Summary of Sanitary Work completed during the Year 1901.
Complaints received and dealt with 1,028
Houses and premises inspected 5,085
„ „ „ re-inspected .. 17,165
,, (registered) visited 487
Workshops inspected 1,115
„ visited 1,569
Milkshops visited 425
Notices issued (preliminary) 2,104
,, (statutory) 212
Sanitary work completed:—
Houses—
Closed under Public Health
(London) Act 3
Cleansed throughout 338
„ partially 626
Overcrowding abated 87
Light or ventilation improved 49
Roofs repaired 196
Floors and staircases repaired 144
Underground rooms vacated 25
Yards, areas, paved or repaired 348
Offensive refuse removed 242
Keeping of animals discontinued 30
Workshops—
Newly registered 46
Measured 199
Workrooms —
Light or ventilation improved 47
Cleansed 279
Protected persons reported to
Home Office _ 10
Outworkers registered 1,183
Overcrowding abated 57
Drains :—
Constructed 712
Amended and repaired 231
Disconnecting traps fixed 630
Ventilated 529
Tested 1,643
Unstopped or cleansed 183
Gully traps fixed 2,036
Inspection chambers built 1,344
„ ,, repaired or
cleansed 198
Drains :—
Inspection chambers, cover fixed
or sealed 1,093
Soil pipes fixed or repaired 641
Yentilating pipes fixed or repaired 398
Water closets:—
Constructed 867
Repaired 237
Ventilated 285
Cleansed or limewashed 464
New pans fixed 881
Pans and traps cleansed 288
Obstruction removed 76
Traps ventilated 594
Water supply provided 267
Flushing apparatus fixed 982
„ „ repaired 326
Waste pipes :—
To sinks, baths, lavatory basins, &c. 36
Fixed 1,006
Repaired or unstopped 130
Disconnected from drain 359
Trapped 962
y entilated 381
Water supply:—
Provided 115
Reinstated 87
Cisterns fixed 194
„ cleansed 486
„ covered 9
„ improper, abolished 88
Disconnected irom w.c. supply 146
Dust bins:—
Provided 322
Repaired 77
Old, abolished 139
Stables :—
Drained 104
Paved 97
Cleansed 58
Dung receptacles provided 64
,, ,, repaired 7
„ pits abolished 49
„ accumulations removed 155