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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 1879
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]
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APPENDIX TO REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
TABLE OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORK
DURING THE YEAR 1879-80.
| NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | For the whole Year. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Animals removed, in lots of .. .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Areas, front, lime-whited | 3 | 72 | 16 | 3 | 94 |
| ,, back ,, | .. | 56 | 18 | 3 | 77 |
| „ front, paving of, cleansed .. | 5 | 5 | 1 | 13 | |
| ,, back ,, ,, | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 |
| „ front „ repaired .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
| „ „ dangerous, mads safe | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 4 |
| „ back ,, ,, | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 3 |
| „ front, deodorised | .. | 2 | 12 | 14 | 28 |
| ,, back ,, | .. | 2 | 12 | 14 | 28 |
| Basements, walls and ceilings, lime-whited | 2 | 3 | 1 | .. | 6 |
| „ floors of, cleansed | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| „ „ deodorised | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Beds, disinfected with Fraser's chamber | 37 | 16 | 45 | 33 | 131 |
| Bed clothes, disinfected with Fraser's chamber, in lots of | 17 | 10 | 20 | 13 | 60 |
| „ „ fluid and washed | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 18 |
| Bones, stale, removed | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 2 |
| Butts or cisterns cleansed | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| „ new ones furnished | .. | 4 | 7 | 1 | 12 |
| „ repaired | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | 4 |
| „ covers furnished to | 2 | 6 | 3 | .. | 11 |
| „ apparatus of, repaired | 1 | .. | 5 | .. | 6 |
| „ waste pipes disconnected from drain .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 3 |
| Cesspools cleansed out and filled up | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| „ deodorised | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
| Corpse, human, coffined and deodorised | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
| „ removed by request | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Courts, walls of, lime-whited | .. | 13 | 2 | .. | 15 |
| Dilapidations, exterior, made good | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 |
| „ interior „ | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
| † Dogs removed, in lots of | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
| Carried forward | 90 | 208 | 169 | 99 | 566 |
* 6 Turtles. † 400 lbs of Cherries.