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 1871.
NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | For the whole Year. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Animals causing nuisance removed | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
Animal matter deodorised | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
,, „ removed | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Areas, front, lime-whited | 12 | 55 | 23 | 4 | 94 |
,, back ,, | 13 | 67 | 22 | 6 | 108 |
„ front paving of, cleansed | 5 | 2 | 25 | 5 | 37 |
„ back ,, ,, | 2 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 22 |
„ front „ repaired | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 |
„ back ,, ,, | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
Basements, walls and ceilings white-washed | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
,, deodorised | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
,, floors of, washed | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 4 |
„ stairs, Avails and ceilings white-washed | 9 | 41 | 20 | 26 | 96 |
„ ,, paint work of, washed | .. | .. | .. | 6 | 6 |
„ „ washed | 1 | 7 | 2 | .. | 10 |
,, passages, walls and ceilings white-washed | 3 | 39 | 10 | 4 | 56 |
„ rooms „ „ | .. | 4 | 2 | 10 | 16 |
„ „ floors of, washed | 1 | .. | .. | 5 | 6 |
Beds disinfected | 91 | 118 | 102 | 93 | 404 |
„ washed | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | 4 |
„ destroyed | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Bed clothes, disinfected, lots of | 88 | 92 | 57 | 37 | 274 |
„ washed | .. | .. | 3 | 10 | 13 |
Bedding foul, removed | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 2 |
Bones, stale ,, | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | 4 |
Butts or cisterns cleansed | .. | 4 | 115 | 4 | 123 |
„ „ apparatus of, repaired | .. | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
,, „ repaired | .. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
,, „ covers furnished to | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
„ „ new ones furnished | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | 3 |
Cats removed | .. | .. | 11 | 15 | 26 |
Cesspools cleansed out and filled up | .. | 3 | .. | .. | 3 |
„ deodorised | .. | 3 | .. | .. | 3 |
Corpse, human, interred by order | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 3 |
Courts, walls of, lime-whited | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
Carried forward | 231 | 451 | 424 | 247 | 1353 |