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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PARISH OF ST. JAMES, WESTMINSTER.
TABLE III.—ABSTRACT OF WORKS DONE BY SANITARY INSPECTORS DURING THE YEAR, 1891.
NUISANCES REMOVED OR ABATED. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | For the whole year. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Animals. Nuisance from, abated | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Areas, whitewashed and cleansed | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
„ paving of, cleansed | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
„ „ repaired | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Basements, whitewashed and cleansed | 4 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 23 |
„ floors, repaired and cleansed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ lighted and ventilated | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Beds, disinfected | 17 | 58 | 17 | 28 | 120 |
Bedclothes, disinfected | 62 | 132 | 66 | 206 | 466 |
Carpets, disinfected | 34 | 10 | 6 | 15 | 65 |
Cisterns, cleansed | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 15 |
„ new ones provided | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
„ covers furnished to | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
„ apparatus and warming pipe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ repaired generally | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Drains, reconstructed with glazed pipes and ventilated | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
„ unstopped, cleansed and repaired | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 |
„ traps furnished to | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Dustbins repaired | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
„ new ones provided | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 10 |
Foul matter removed | 11 | 15 | 20 | 10 | 56 |
Gutters, cleansed and repaired | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ new ones furnished | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Houses furnished with water supply | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ water supply reinstated | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Kitchens whitewashed | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 16 |
„ underground, cleared of occupants | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
Lead flats, roofs cleansed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ „ repaired | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mattresses disinfected | 13 | 20 | 7 | 20 | 60 |
Miscellaneous articles disinfected | 68 | 150 | 67 | 123 | 408 |
Pillows disinfected | 33 | 135 | 40 | 68 | 276 |
Passages whitewashed and cleansed | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
„ floors of, repaired and cleansed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rain water pipes, new ones furnished | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ „ „ unstopped, cleansed and repaired | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
„ „ „ disconnected from drain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Rooms, whitewashed and cleansed | 8 | 42 | 75 | 33 | 158 |
„ disinfected | 12 | 33 | 25 | 34 | 104 |
„ overcrowded abated | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
„ floors of, repaired and cleansed | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Carried forward | 286 | 627 | 396 | 564 | 1873 |
WILLIAM HILL WATSON, Chief Sanitary Inspector.