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St James's 1876

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

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Table: ST. JAMESS, WESTMINSTER.APPENDIX TO REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.TABLE OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORKDURING THE YEAR 1876.

ST. JAMESS, WESTMINSTER.

APPENDIX TO REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.

TABLE OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORK

DURING THE YEAR 1876.

NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.For the whole Year.
Animal matter removed....2..2
Areas, front, Lime whitcd169466122
„ back15828693
„ front paving of, repaired....224
back ,, „......22
,, front „ cleansed214613
„ ack ,, ,,441413
„ front, dangerous made safe..1....1
„ front, deodorised.....7..7
„ ack ,,....1..1
Basements, walls and ceilings of, whitewashed..3....3
Rods, disinfected with Fraser's chamber1873454113
„ „ sulphur5016232
„ foul, removed and destroyed12..25
Bed clothes disinfected with Fraser's chamber, lots of125163265
„ „ sulphur „317112
„ „ fluids and washed „10..72643
„ foul, removed and destroyed „11..13
„ washed „..1....1
Bones, stale, removed....112
Butts or cisterns cleansed136313
„ new ones furnished......11
„ covers furnished to....224
„ repaired2..126
„ apparatus of repaired..11..2
Cesspools cleansed out and filled up..1....1
Corpse, human, deodorised and removed1..113
Courts, walls of, lime whited..11..2
Dilapations, exterior, made good....1..2
„ interior „..1236
Dogs removed, in lots of..2....2
Carried forward62171187158578