Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]
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ST. JAMES, WESTMINSTER.
APPENDIX TO REPORT OP MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
APPENDIX TO REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
TABLE OF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORK—continued.
NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quartor. | Fourth Quarter. | For the whole year. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gullies unstopped and cleansed | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 |
Gutters cleansed | ... | 1 | ... | 7 | 8 |
„ repaired | ... | ... | ... | 3 | 3 |
Houses furnished with a full supply of water | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
„ cleansed and painted throughout | ... | 6 | ... | ... | 6 |
Kitchens, front walls, and ceilings whitewashed | ... | 27 | 12 | 7 | 46 |
back „ | 4 | 50 | 18 | 10 | 82 |
„ occupied contrary to law, cleared | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 1 |
„ floors of, repaired | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 |
Lead flats or gutters, cleansed | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 |
Lumber removed | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 2 |
Mattresses disinfected with sulphur | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 |
„ „ in Fraser's chamber | 17 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 40 |
Meat unfit for the food of man, destroyed | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 |
Miscellaneous articles disinfected in Fraser's chamber, in lots of | 192 | 57 | 24 | 42 | 315 |
Miscellaneous articles destroyed | 4 | ... | ... | ... | 4 |
Passages, main walls, and ceilings whitewashed | 3 | 60 | 22 | 4 | 89 |
„ floors of, washed | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 17 |
,, basement walls, and ceilings whitewashed | 5 | 50 | 15 | 9 | 79 |
„ paint work of, washed | ... | ... | 5 | 6 | 11 |
„ floors repaired | ... | ... | 2 | ... | 2 |
Pillows disinfected in Fraser's chamber | 36 | 21 | 22 | 19 | 98 |
Rain water pipes, new ones | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | 2 |
„ „ repaired | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 2 |
„ „ unstopped and cleansed | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | 2 |
„ „ disconnected from drains | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 |
Rooms, walls, and ceilings whitewashed and cleansed | 11 | 122 | 71 | 23 | ... |
„ disinfected | 10 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 27 |
„ paint work of, washed | 1 | 6 | ... | 4 | 11 |
„ floors of. washed | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 1 |
., overcrowded, cleared of occupants | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | 2 |
Rubbish, foul, removed | 4 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 30 |
Service pipes, repaired | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 |
„ new ones furnished | ... | ... | 7 | ... | 7 |
Shops, walls, and ceilings whitewashed | ... | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
„ paint work of, washed | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... |
Sink stones, traps furnished to | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 1 |
„ abolished | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 |
,, waste pipes furnished | ... | ... | ... | 2 | 2 |
„ „ of, trapped | ... | 2 | ... | ... | ... |
JAMES H. MORGAN,
Sanitary Inspector.
EDWIN BROOKS,
Assistant Sanitary Inspector, and
Superintendent of the Mortuary.
Vestry Hall, Piccadilly,
January 16th, 1883.