Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]
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A SUMMARY OF NUISANCES REMOVED
From the 14th of July, 185G, to 31sf of December, 1860.
185G
1857
1858
1859
1860
Total.
Areas, front, lime-whited,
..
..
21
25
24
70
„ back,
..
..
..
7
11
18
„ drained,
..
..
32
..
4
36
„ repaired,
..
..
2
1
..
3
Animal food unfit for use (destroyed),
..
..
2
1
..
3
Animal matter, foul, removed,
..
..
..
2
3
5
Animals removed,
..
11
..
1
2
14
Abodes cleansed,
6
28
11
..
11
50
„ purified,
..
..
..
..
3
3
Bones, stale, removed,
4
3
1
5
2
15
Basements lime-whited,
..
10
27
20
20
77
„ passages,
..
..
..
7
6
13
„ stairs,
..
8
..
13
22
43
„ drained,
..
..
13
..
..
13
„ drains repaired,
..
..
..
5
..
5
Butts or cisterns, covers added to,
..
8
10
3
2
52
„ repaired,
..
2
6
3
4
15
„ new ones added,
..
..
20
5
..
25
„ cleansed,
..
10
7
2
1
43
„ abolished,
..
..
3
1
..
4
Bedding, foul, cleansed,
..
..
..
..
6
6
Cats, nuisance from keeping of, abated,
..
..
4
..
..
4
Cesspools removed,
2
56
64
28
24
174
Corpses removed,
..
..
..
5
3
8
Clothing,
..
8
..
..
..
..
Courts, paving of, repaired,
..
..
..
..
1
1
„ cleansed,
..
5
2
2
..
9
Drains cleansed,
35
61
40
49
82
267
„ connected with sewers,
..
..
20
9
14
43
„ reconstructed,
..
92
68
50
51
261
„ repaired,
..
43
35
31
47
156
„ traps added to,
..
..
114
54
43
211
„ traps made effectual by a supply of air,
..
..
33
..
..
33
Drainage matter stopped from entering premises,
..
..
..
18
24
42
Drains, old ones cleared away,
..
..
..
..
6
6
Dwellings improved, in the ventilation of,
..
6
5
1
14
20
„ unfit for occupation, cleared,
..
..
4
4
..
8
„ supplied with water-closets,
..
..
3
1
..
4
„ over-crowded ones cleared,
..
..
..
3
6
9
„ dilapidations in exterior repaired,
..
9
8
10
6
33
„ „ in interior repaired,
..
47
21
11
15
94
51