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St James's 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]
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PARISH OF ST. JAMES, WESTMINSTER.
APPENDIX TO REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
APPENDIX TO REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
TABLE III.—ABSTRACT OF WORKS DONE BY SANITARY INSPECTORS DURING THE YEAR, 1889.
| NUISANCES REMOVFD OR ABATED. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter,_ | For the whole year. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animals, Nuisance from, abated | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| Areas, limewhited | 2 | 2 | 20 | 6 | 30 |
| „ paving of, cleansed | o | 0 | 13 | 6 | 19 |
| „ „ repaired | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Basements, limewhited | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 14 |
| „ floors, repaired and cleansed | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| „ lighted and ventilated | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Beds, disinfected | 21 | 11 | 44 | 33 | 109 |
| Bedclothes, disinfected | 111 | 52 | 153 | 148 | 464 |
| Carpets, disinfected | 21 | 20 | 33 | 29 | 109 |
| Cisterns, cleansed | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 18 |
| „ new ones furnished | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| „ covers furnished to | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| „ apparatus and warming pipe | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Drains, reconstructed with glazed pipes and ventilated | 7 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 24 |
| „ unstopped, cleansed and repaired | 23 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 49 |
| „ traps furnished to | 11 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 35 |
| Dustbins repaired | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| „ new ones furnished | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Foul matter removed | 7 | 20 | 14 | 24 | 65 |
| Gutters, cleansed and repaired | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| „ new ones furnished | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Houses furnished with water supply | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kitchens limewhited | 20 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 34 |
| „ underground, cleared of occupants | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Lead flats and roofs, cleansed | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| „ „ repaired | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Mattresses disinfected | 34 | 11 | 38 | 36 | 119 |
| Miscellaneous articles disinfected | 34 | 48 | 335 | 245 | 662 |
| Pillows disinfected | 37 | 26 | 103 | 86 | 252 |
| Passages, entrance whitewashed and cleansed | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1.7 / | 11 |
| ,, basement ,, ,, „ ,, | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| floors of repaired and cleansed | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Rain water pipes, new ones furnished | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| ,, ,, unstopped, cleansed and repaired | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Rooms, whitewashed and cleansed | 20 | 40 | 26 | 40 | 126 |
| ,, disinfected with sulphur | 8 | 10 | 26 | 26 | 70 |
| ,, overcrowded abated | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| ,, floors of, repaired and cleansed | 12 | 35 | 1 | 9 | 57 |
| Carried forward | 394 | 344 | 863 | 738 | 2339 |
WILLIAM HILL WATSON, Chief Inspector of Nuisances.