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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 1869

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

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Table: REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORK,— (Continued.)

REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORK,— (Continued.)

NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.For the whole Year.
Brought forward3086785503781914
Gas stopped from entering houses or premises3..126
Gullies, private, cleansed733114
„ „ unstopped2......2
„ „ repaired197320
Houses to which a full supply of water has been added825217
„ painted and white washed11....2
„ Ventilation of, improved in....1..1
Kitchens, front, walls and ceilings, white-washed83920269
„ back „ „1374963186
„ „ floors of, repaired235313
„ front „ washed..1214
„ back „ „12115
„ front cleared of occupants3..249
„ back „ „..4....4
„ „ deodorised......22
Lead flats or gutters cleansed13217
Lumber, foul, removed..23..5
Mattrasses, old ones removed..7..29
„ foul ones destroyed8..17..25
Meat unfit for human food destroyed....112
Oyster shells removed237214
Passages, main, or entrance white washed111089716232
„ „ „ paint work washed..61..7
„ „ „ floois of „17491141
„ „ „ „ repaired1......1
Paint work washed..1..23
Rain water pipes unstopped and cleansed..2125
„ „ repaired452415
„ „ disconnected from drains2......2
„ „ altered....1..1
„ „ trapped..1124
„ „ new ones furnished..2..13
Rooms, walls and ceilings white washed391147456283
„ floors of, washed42271851
„ disinfected212263979
„ overcrowded ones cleared1....23
Rubbish removed from vaults, &c.275..14
Carried forward15110959675613074

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A SUMMARY OF WORK DURING THE YEAR.
First Quarter.
Second Quarter.
Third Quarter.
Fourth Quarter.
For the
whole
Year.
Number of complaints made
50
59
59
54
222
„ notices served
34
60
81
44
219
„ „ aftended to
26
39
87
45
197
„ complaints made under Workshop Begulation
Act
4
11
2
5
22
„ visits made „ „
7
22
2
6
37
„ inspections made to Slaughter houses
..
..
..
3
3
„ fever cases visited
..
1
..
..
1
„ scarlet fever cases visited
12
13
47
91
163
typhus „ „
6
..
..
..
6
„ typhoid „ „
5
..
1
12
18
„ continued „ „
..
..
..
4
4
„ diptheria „ „
2
..
..
..
2
„ small-pox „ „
1
1
8
..
10
„ diarrhoea „ „
..
1
4
..
5
„ houses drained with 6-inch pipes
7
1
2
2
12
„ „ „ 9 „
1
1
..
3
5
„ nuisances removed
784
2167
1881
852
5634
May 18 th, 1870,
JAMES H. MORGAN",
Sanitary Inspector,