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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 1872

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

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Table: %A SUMMARY OF WORK DURING THE YEAR.

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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 nuisances removed14041876156715076354
„ complaints made79617458272
„ notices served881664752353
,, ,, attended721058457318
„ scarlet fever cases visited..151016
„ typhoid „..31913
„ typhus „....1..1
„ continued „5..2916
„ small pox421712374
„ diarrhœa....1..1
,, children found unvaccinated12....3
,, articles of bed clothing disinfected3522078394736
„ „ furniture284778394538
,, miscellaneous254175163102694
„ ,, wearing apparel188204155301848
„ urinals and places used as such, deodorised daily....8715
„ gullies, public, deodorised daily..503320103
„ water closets and yards, deodorised daily......7777
„ visits made to slaughter houses......1010

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JAMES H. MORGAN,
Sanitary Inspector,
February 20th, 1873.