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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 SA.NITARY INSPECTOR'S WORK, —( Continued.)

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

NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.For the whole Year.
Brought forward3656796394572140
Houses furnished with a full supply of water....112
„ painted and white washed throughout....145
„ drained with 6-inch pipe..11..2
Kitchens, front, cleared of occupants....224
„ „ walls and ceilings white-washed2248236
,, hack ,, „76011482
,, front, floors of, washed..38112
,, hack ,, ,,..2518
„ „ „ repaired......11
Lead flats or gutters cleansed..11..2
Lumber, foul, removed......22
Mattresses disinfected70979755319
„ removed....2..2
,, foul, destroyed....9..9
Miscellaneous articles, disinfected, lots of74925737260
* „ destroyed....112
* 2 Lots of 100 each.
Oyster shells, stale, removed1......1
Passages, main, or entrance, wall and ceilings lime-whited14841031139
„ „ „ paint work washed323..1238
„ ,, ,, floors of ,,77160130178545
Pillows disinfected206259179116760
Rain water pipes, new ones furnished1..113
„ „ unstopped and cleansed....1..1
„ „ repaired22217
„ ,, connected with drains....1..1
„ „ trapped1......1
Rooms, walls and ceilings, white-washed10516010252419
,, paint work of, washed571446727295
„ floors of „611447926310
,, disinfected751066647294
„ overcrowded ones, cleared of occupants12..36
Rubbish, foul, removed..2141026
„ „ deodorised......11
Carried forward11222045149510735735