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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 1868

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

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Table: REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORE.FOR THE YEAR 1868.

REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORE.

FOR THE YEAR 1868.

NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.For the whole Year.
Areas, front, lime-whited41196514202
„ back, „1685510134
„ front paving of, cleansed241112653
„ back „ ,,676221
„ front „ repaired14..38
„ back „ „....224
„ deodorised....213
Animals cleansed....1..1
Animal matter removed..1....1
Basement rooms, Avails and ceilings, lime-whited21819443
„ passages „ „5355813111
„ floors of, washed......11
„ stairs, walls, and ceilings lime-whited101286516219
„ „ steps of, washed11141329
„ floors of, washed9394355
„ „ repaired......11
„ deodorised..10..212
Beds washed4..4..8
,, disinfected......11
Bedsteads washed, &c.71....8
Bedding and bed clothes washed..45..9
Bones removed..2226
Butts, cisterns, and other water receptacles cleansed3322634
„ „ „ „ repaired533..11
„ „ „ „ new ones added11215
„ „ „ „ covers added to2410420
„ „ „ „ apparatus of, repaired91..111
Cesspools cleansed out and filled up1....23
Clothing disinfected and washed....426
Corpses, human, removed by order......33
Drainage matter stopped from entering premises135312
„ removed....2..2
Carried forward1064763491061037