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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REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORK,
FOR THE YEAR 1866.
nuisances removed or abated. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | For the whole Year. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Areas, front, lime-whited | 1 | 4 | 68 | 4 | 77 |
„ back „ | 3 | 2 | 27 | 5 | 37 |
„ front, paving of, repaired | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 |
„ back„ „ | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | 4 |
„ cleansed , | .. | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
Abodes cleansed | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 12 |
Animal matter removed | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 3 |
Basement rooms, walls and ceilings lime-whited | .. | 3 | 30 | 5 | 47 |
passages „ | .. | 4 | 32 | 6 | 42 |
„ stairs „ „ | .. | .. | 1 | 5 | 6 |
„ floors washed „ „ | .. | 1 | 2 | 15 | 18 |
„ room floors washed „ | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 3 |
Bedding purified | .. | .. | 11 | .. | 11 |
„ and bed clothes | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 |
„ destroyed | 1 | .. | 6 | .. | 7 |
Beds and mattresses destroyed . | .. | .. | .. | 14 | 14 |
Bones removed | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 |
Butts, cisterns, and other water receptacles cleansed | .. | 1 | 18 | 8 | 27 |
„ „ „ „ lepaired | 2 | 1 | .. | 2 | 5 |
„ „ „ „ new ones added | . . | . . | 1 | . . | 1 |
„ „ „ „ covers added to | . . | 3 | 29 | 5 | 37 |
Cesspools cleansed out and filled up | 3 | 2 | 1 | . . | 6 |
Courts, lime-whited | 1 | 2 | . . | 2 | 5 |
Corpse interred by request | .. | 1 | . . | .. | 1 |
Drainage matter stopped from entering premises | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
Drains re-constructed with pipes | 3 | 4 | .. | .. | 7 |
„ defective pipes of, repaired | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 |
„ repaired ...... | 5 | 9 | 17 | 13 | 44 |
„ unstopped and cleansed | 7 | 14 | 22 | 19 | 62 |
„ old ones not in use removed | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
„ traps added to | 12 | 11 | 53 | 13 | 89 |
„ connections of, made good | .. | .. | 12 | .. | 12 |
„ foul ones cleansed | 6 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 19 |
Carried forward | 51 | 75 | 367 | 129 | 622 |
James H.Morgan,
Sanitary Inspector.
June 14th, 1867.
Note:—The work of two ???