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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Martin-in-the-Fields 1873
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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Summary of Sanitary Work performed during the Year
1873.
Yards and basements repaved 10
Dust-bins provided or repaired 21
Apparatus provided or repaired for supply of water to
closet 22
Drains repaired and cleansed 13
Closets repaired 9
Drains trapped 22
Rubbish removed from basements 10
Rooms and staircases cleansed and whitewashed 177
Houses cleansed and whitewashed throughout 20
Ceilings, stairs, and roofs repaired 7
Basements, yards and closets limewhited 76
Apparatus repaired for water supply 2
Underground dwellings discontinued 21
Cisterns or water butts covered and cleansed 26
Overcrowding abated 3
Manure removed 1
Miscellaneous 14
In the year 1873, there were held 73 inquests. Subjoined are the causes which produced death:—
| Natural causes | 30 |
| Drowning | 3 |
| Injuries received from falling down stairs | 3 |
| Cause not ascertained | 6 |
| Burns and Scalds | 6 |
| Falls from Houses | 4 |
| Suffocation | 1 |
| Run over or knocked down in the street | 1 |
| Injuries received from falls in the street | 11 |
| Hanging | 1 |
| Inflammation of brain, caused by a locust bean put into the ear of a little boy by himself | 1 |
| Inflammation of brain, from injury to eye, caused accidentally by a piece of tin thrown by a boy in the street | 1 |
| Injuries received from the falling of a brick wall | 1 |
| Carried forward | 69 |