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 1873.
NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | For the whole Year. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Animals, dead, removed | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
„ nuisance from, stopped | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
Areas, front, lime whited | 7 | 46 | 29 | 21 | 103 |
,, back „ ,, | 2 | 42 | 27 | 9 | 80 |
„ front, paving of, cleansed | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
,, back ,, ,, | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
„ front, dangerous, made safe | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 3 |
„ „ deodorised | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 3 |
,, back ,, | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 |
Basements, walls and ceilings of, whitewashed | .. | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
„ floors of, washed | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 |
„ rooms, walls, and ceilings of, whitewashed .. | .. | .. | 4 | 2 | 6 |
,, stairs ,, ,, ,, ,, | 11 | 57 | 23 | 18 | 109 |
„ „ paint work of, washed | l | 7 | 3 | .. | 11 |
,, ,, Steps ,, ,, | .. | 6 | . . | .. | 6 |
„ passages, walls, and ceilings of, whitewashed | 5 | 21 | 13 | 8 | 47 |
„ „ paint work of, washed | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 2 |
,, floors ,, ,, | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | 4 |
„ ,, „ „ deodorised | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 |
Beds disinfected with Frazer's stove | 4 | 14 | 12 | 29 | 59 |
„ „ „ Maw's cups | .. | 3 | 12 | 5 | 20 |
„ washed | .. | 6 | .. | .. | 6 |
Bed clothes disinfected with Frazer's stove, lots of | .. | 3 | 5 | 16 | 27 |
,, ,, ,, Maw's Cups „ | .. | .. | 3 | 2 | 5 |
,, ,, ,, Condy's fluid „ | 3 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 23 |
„ washed, lots of | .. | 4 | .. | 1 | 5 |
Bones, stale, removed | .. | .. | 3 | 3 | |
„ „ deodorised | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 3 |
Butts or cisterns cleansed | .. | 10 | 20 | 1 | 31 |
„ „ new ones furnished | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
„ ,, repaired | 1 | 3 | 2 | .. | 6 |
„ „ covers furnished to | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 3 |
„ „ „ repaired | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 |
„ „ apparatus of, repaired | .. | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
Carpets, foul, removed | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
Carried forward | 55 | 240 | 187 | 145 | 627 |