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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 1870

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

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Table: REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WOREFOR THE YEAR 1870.

REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORE

FOR THE YEAR 1870.

NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.For the whole Year.
Animal matter removed1......1
Areas, front, lime-whited1041261087
„ back ,,53416459
„ front, paving of, cleansed2822221890
„ back ,,385319
„ front „ repaired..11..2
„ back ,, ,,..23..5
„ „ „ deodorised..4....4
Basement rooms, walls and ceilings white-washed1117625
„ „ floors of, washed7571130
„ „ „ repaired111..3
„ stairs, walls and ceilings white-washed16512816111
„ ,, washed82281957
„ „ paint work washed....1..1
„ passages, walls and ceilings white-washed102413754
„ „ floors of, washed5..13..18
Beds foul, washed .. .. .. ..2073232
„ „ destroyed146..11
„ disinfected1652537
„ clothes of, foul, washed..3951..90
„ „ „ disinfected and washed9740124372633
„ „ „ destroyed120....21
Bones, stale, removed....2..2
„ „ deodorised....1..1
Butts or cisterns cleansed15712272
,, „ repaired11215
„ „ new ones furnished12418
„ „ covers furnished to21418
„ repaired12....3
„ „ apparatus of, repaired3..9214
Cesspools cleaned out and filled up..42..6
Carpets disinfected111..3
Corpse, human, removed by order13217
„ „ disinfected..11..2
Courts, walls of, white-washed..62..8
„ paving of, cleansed......11
Carried forward2264203825021530

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