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St James's 1878

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

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ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER.
APPENDIX TO REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.

Table: TABLE OF SANITARY INSPECTORS WORKDURING THE YEAR 1878.

TABLE OF SANITARY INSPECTORS WORK

DURING THE YEAR 1878.

NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.For the whole Year.
Areas, front, lime whited85524390
„ back „1043171080
„ front paving of, repaired1..124
„ „ „ cleansed..4419
„ back „ „....314
„ „ dangerous, made safe....1..1
„ front, deodorised....167
„ „ „......1717
Basements, walls and ceilings, lime whited..64111
„ floors of, repaired....112
„ „ cleansed1..1..2
„ „ deodorised39....443
Beds, disinfected with Fraser's chamber39371653145
„ „ sulphur......66
„ removed and destroyed2....13
Bed clothes disinfected with Fraser's chamber, lots of151062455
„ „ sulphur „......55
„ „ fluid and washed „..261725
Bones, stale, removed..21..3
Butts or cisterns cleansed12317
„ new ones furnished135615
„ repaired..2215
„ covers furnished to..1..12
„ covers of repaired..1....1
„ apparatus furnished to..1....1
„ „ of repaired....2..2
Cesspools cleansed out and filled up1......1
„ deodorised....1..1
Corpse, human, coffined, deodorised and removed....123
„ removed by request116311
Courts, walls of, lime whited..22..4
„ paving cleansed....1..1
Drains reconstructed with 9 inch pipes12....3
Carried forward1201741???9165569