London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St James's 1881
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]
This page requires JavaScript
GENERAL WORKS—
| Situation. | Description of Work. | Amount Expended. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||
| SEWERS WORKS. | |||||||
| Generally | Maintaining Local Sewers, cleansing same and clearing Choked Gullies and Drains, connecting House Drains, &c., &c.; clearing and attending to Public Urinals, &c. | ||||||
| NEW GULLIES BUILT, | |||||||
| on improved principle. | |||||||
| Silver Street | One New Gully Built | ||||||
| Argyll Place | Do. do. | ||||||
| St. James's Place | Do. do. | ||||||
| Piccadilly | Eight New Gullies Built | ||||||
| Savile Passage | One New Gully Built | ||||||
| Berwick Street | Four New Gullies Built | ||||||
| Coach Horses Yard | One New Gully Built | ||||||
| Blue Hall Yard | Do. do. | ||||||
| St. James's Market | Do. do. | ||||||
| Upper Rupert Street | Do. do. | ||||||
| Princes Street, Regent Street | Do. do. | ||||||
| Twenty-one in all. Average cost £5 each | 105 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| FLUSHING. | |||||||
| Generally | 61 Pipe Sewers Flushed. Water for same | ||||||
| URINALS. | |||||||
| Generally | Cost of Water for Flushing | 60 | 0 | 0 | |||
| REPAIRS TO URINALS. | |||||||
| Cork Street Mews | Repairs to Water Supply | 2 | 2 | 0 | |||
| Hum Yard | Alterations to ditto | 7 | 16 | 0 | |||
| Wells Street | Repairs to ditto | 0 | 11 | 0 | |||
| Broad Street | Ditto ditto | 0 | 15 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 0 |
| STAND POSTS AND HOSE. | |||||||
| Generally | Amount expended in Repairs to Stand Posts and Hose | 33 | 12 | 6 | |||
| Carried forward | |||||||