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St James's 1867

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]

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Table: St. James's Westminster.REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORK,FOR THE YEAR 1867.

St. James's Westminster.

REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORK,

FOR THE YEAR 1867.

NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.For the whole Year.
Areas, front, lime whited9582219108
„ „ paving of, cleansed716193072
„ „ „ repaired653418
„ back, walls of, lime-whited33820970
„ „ paving of, cleansed26221242
„ „ „ repaired....6..6
Abodes cleansed3121117
Animal matter removed..3....3
Bake houses walls and ceilings lime-whited..31....31
„ „ „ of stairs lime-whited..8....8
„ „ „ store rooms „..12....12
„ „ of yards „..1....1
„ „ of areas „..3....3
Basements, walls and ceilings lime-whited411..722
„ stairs „ „....21113
„ steps of, washed......99
„ passages, walls and ceilings lime-whited4....1217
„ „ floors of, repaired..1....1
„ „ „ washed....51318
„ rooms, walls and ceilings white-washed1..8413
„ „ floors of, cleansed....134
Beds destroyed....2..2
Bedding washed1..429
„ purified....1..1
Bones removed....3..8
Butts or cisterns cleansed4..16274
„ „ apparatus to, repaired......55
„ ,, repaired3..227
„ „ covers added to21..161359
„ new ones furnished3..6..9
Carpeting destroyed....1..1
Clothing „....3..3
„ disinfected....11011
Cesspools cleansed out and filled up23117
Coach-house walls and ceilings lime-whited....1..1
Carried forward73260168179680