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St James's 1877

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

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Table: ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER.APPENDIX TO REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.TABLE IV.—SANITARY INSPECTORS WORKDURING THE YEAR 1877.

ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER.

APPENDIX TO REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.

TABLE IV.—SANITARY INSPECTORS WORK

DURING THE YEAR 1877.

Areas, front, lime whitedFirst Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.For the whole Year.
Areas, front, lime whited .565181180
„ back „53026673
„ front paving of, repaired11....2
„ back „1....12
„ front „ cleansed652116
„ back „7......7
„ „ dangerous, made safe....l..1
Basements, walls, and ceilings of, lime whited222..6
Beds disinfected with Eraser's chamber64622926181
„ „ „ sulphur33....6
„ removed and destroyed..2..13
Bed clothes disinfected with Fraser's chamber, lots of2531161284
„ „ „ sulphur „1l....2
„ „ „ fluid and washed „292720
„ removed and destroyed..3....3
Butts or cisterns cleansed..1348
„ now ones furnished..2226
„ repaired....224
„ covers tarnished to3..3410
„ „ repaired....2..2
„ apparatus of, repaired1......1
„ waste pipes disconnected from drains....213
Cesspools cleansed out and filled up1....12
Corpse, human, coflined, deodorised and removed....3..3
„ „ removed26..513
Courts, walls of, lime whitcd..121..13
Dilapidations, exterior, made good......11
„ interior2....13
Dogs, removed, in lots of......11
Drains reconstructed with 9 inch pipes..l315
„ „ „ 6 „3..159
„ „ „ 4 „1l....2
Drains of 9 inch pipes, taken up and relaid......11
Carried forward13723311894582