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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APPENDIX TO REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
TABLE OF INSPECTORS' WORK—
nuisances removed or abated. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | For the whole year. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brought forward | 823 | 770 | 476 | 409 | 2478 |
Shops, -whitewashed and cleansed | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | 4 |
Service pipes, new ones furnished | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
,, ,, repaired | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | 3 |
Sinkstones, traps furnished to | 1 | 2 | . . | .. | 3 |
„ waste pipes disconnected from drains | 4 | .. | . . | .. | 4 |
„ furnished with new pipes and syphon | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 |
Stairs, main walls and ceilings whitewashed | 3 | 32 | 21 | 12 | 68 |
„ 3teps of, washed | 4 | 2 | 3 | .. | 9 |
,, „ repaired | 3 | . . | .. | .. | 3 |
Urinals, private ones, limewhited | 4 | .. | .. | 2 | 6 |
,, „ furnished with water supply | 3 | .. | . . | 2 | 5 |
,, ,, apparatus repaired | 3 | .. | .. | 2 | 5 |
Vaults, limewhited | 13 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 40 |
Wash-house, limewhited | 1 | 2 | 3 | .. | 6 |
Water-closet, limewhited | 13 | 34 | 26 | 18 | 91 |
„ furnished with a water supply | 22 | 20 | 17 | 16 | 75 |
„ „ with a new apparatus | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 16 |
,, apparatus repaired | 18 | 9 | 17 | 17 | 61 |
,, new pans furnished to | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
„ pans unstopped and cleansed | 15 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 58 |
„ traps, new ones furnished to | 3 | 4 | .. | 1 | 8 |
„ seats, raisers and floors furnished to | 5 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 18 |
„ „ „ repaired | 3 | .. | .. | 2 | 5 |
,, abolished | .. | 4 | .. | .. | 4 |
„ repaired generally | 2 | 2 | 3 | .. | 7 |
„ soil pipes, new ones furnished to | 5 | .. | .. | 1 | 6 |
,, ,, repaired and ventilated | 6 | 8 | 1 | 19 | |
„ reconstructed | .. | 12 | 5 | 4 | 21 |
„ light and ventilation improved in | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 3 |
Water stopped from running as a nuisance | 8 | .. | .. | .. | 8 |
Wearing apparel disinfected | 88 | 136 | 30 | 108 | 362 |
Yard, walls of, limewhited | 5 | 19 | 13 | 11 | 48 |
„ paving of, cleansed | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
„ „ repaired | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 19 |
Total | 1072 | 1109 | 666 | 641 | 3488 |
STABLES. Manure, removed in lots of | 35 | 22 | 38 | 13 | 108 |
Stables whitewashed | .. | .. | 8 | .. | 8 |
Total | 35 | 22 | 46 | 13 | 106 |
vestry Hall, Pr???adilly.
EDWIN BROOKS and
WILLIAM HILL WATSON
Inspectors of
Nuirsences.