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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
St James's 1865
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]
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REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORK,—(
| NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | For the whole Year. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brought forward, | 139 | 222 | 246 | 228 | 835 |
| Rags removed, | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 2 |
| Smoke | 2 | 1 | .. | 2 | 5 |
| Stairs, main, white-washed, | 4 | 10 | 26 | 18 | 58 |
| „ basements, white-washed, | .. | 5 | 13 | .. | 18 |
| „ „ steps washed, | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Shops, walls, and ceilings white-washed, | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | 4 |
| „ floors washed, | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
| Urinals, drains added to, | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
| „ cleansed, | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
| „ trapped, | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Vaults lime-whited, | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Vegetable refuse removed, | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 |
| Water stopped from entering Premises, | 6 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 17 |
| Water-closets lime-whited, | 6 | 41 | 28 | 29 | 104 |
| „ ventilation improved in, | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
| „ furnished with a supply of water, | 13 | 7 | 15 | 11 | 46 |
| „ seats, new ones added to, | 2 | 2 | .. | 1 | 5 |
| „ seats of, repaired, | 3 | .. | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| „ raisers, new ones added, | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
| „ „ repaired, | .. | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| „ pans, new, | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| „ traps, | 3 | 6 | .. | 5 | 14 |
| „ soil pipes, new, | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
| „ „ repaired, | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 3 |
| „ apparatus new or repaired, | 10 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 29 |
| „ general dilapidations in, repaired, | 4 | .. | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| „ pans of, cleansed of soil, | 16 | 7 | 16 | 13 | 52 |
| „ „ foul ones cleansed, | 4 | .. | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| „ flaps added, | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
| „ floors, new or repaired, | 1 | .. | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| „ soil pipes unstopped and cleansed, | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 |
| „ re-built | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 |
| „ abolished, | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Windows repaired, | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| „ top sashes made to move down, | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
| Yards, walls of, lime-whited, | 5 | 41 | 25 | 21 | 92 |
| „ paving of, repaired, | 2 | 6 | .. | 5 | 13 |
| „ „ cleansed, | 3 | .. | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| „ walls of, repaired, | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Carried forward, | 235 | 375 | 409 | 372 | 1391 |