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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 1871

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

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Table: REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORKFOR THE YEAR 1871.

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
,, „ removed1......1
Areas, front, lime-whited125523494
,, back ,,1367226108
„ front paving of, cleansed5225537
„ back ,, ,,2212622
„ front „ repaired..11..2
„ back ,, ,,....1..1
Basements, walls and ceilings white-washed1......1
,, deodorised1......1
,, floors of, washed......44
„ stairs, Avails and ceilings white-washed941202696
„ ,, paint work of, washed......66
„ „ washed172..10
,, passages, walls and ceilings white-washed33910456
„ rooms „ „..421016
„ „ floors of, washed1....56
Beds disinfected9111810293404
„ washed....134
„ destroyed1......1
Bed clothes, disinfected, lots of88925737274
„ washed....31013
Bedding foul, removed....2..2
Bones, stale ,,....314
Butts or cisterns cleansed..41154123
„ „ apparatus of, repaired..4239
,, „ repaired..2125
,, „ covers furnished to145212
„ „ new ones furnished..2..13
Cats removed....111526
Cesspools cleansed out and filled up..3....3
„ deodorised..3....3
Corpse, human, interred by order1..2..3
Courts, walls of, lime-whited..1....1
Carried forward2314514242471353