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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 1881
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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The Peabody Buildings, Bedfordbury, not being
finished at the time of the taking of the Census, and
therefore not occupied, did not come within the Census.
This year was remarkable for the epidemic of Smallpox,
of which I shall speak farther on.
Works chargeable upon the "Sewers' Rate."
district sewerage.
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 102 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 99 | 19 | 0 | ||||
| Sundry repairs to and cleansing small sewers and pipes | 24 | 9 | 6 | |||
| Labour and water for flushing pipe sewers, and repairs to flushing hose.. | 271 | 3 | 2 | |||
| Sundry repairs to and cleansing large sewers | 82 | 18 | 3 | |||
| Repairs to and cleansing gullies | 113 | 7 | 5 | |||
| Flushing gullies with disinfectants . | 202 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Examining and connecting drains to sewers | 28 | 9 | 5 | |||
| 924 | 9 | 9 | ||||
| public urinals. | ||||||
| Supply of water and rent of meters | 12 | 14 | 6 | |||
| Sundry repairs | 26 | 11 | 11 | |||
| Labour and brooms, cleansing urinals and channels | 59 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 98 | 6 | 5 | ||||
| Carried forward | £1,022 : | 16 | 2 | |||