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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 1878
[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
1878.
Yards and basements repaved 8
Dust-bins provided or repaired 12
Apparatus provided or repaired for supply of water to
closet 16
Drains repaired and cleansed 14
Closets repaired 11
Drains trapped 13
Rooms and staircases cleansed and whitewashed 35
Houses cleansed and whitewashed throughout 11)
Ceilings, stairs, and roofs repaired 12
Basements, yards, and closets lime-whited 32
Apparatus repaired for water supply 5
Underground dwellings discontinued 3
Cisterns or water-butts covered and cleansed 22
Bakehouses cleansed and lime-whited 4
Overcrowding abated 4
Miscellaneous 6
Rooms disinfected after Smallpox 11
Inquests.
In the year 1878, there were held 65 inquests. Subjoined are the causes which produced death:—
| N atural causes | 22 |
| Run over or knocked down in the street | 5 |
| Burns and scalds | 5 |
| Fall from a window | 2 |
| Fall from a cart | 3 |
| Fall from a ladder | 2 |
| Carried forward | 39 |