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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 1888

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]

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Summary of Sanitary Works performed during the Year 1888.
Yards and basements repaired or repaved 3
Dust-bins provided or repaired 10
Apparatus provided or repaired for supply of water to closets 15
Drains repaired and cleansed 16
Closets repaired 4
Drains trapped 6
Rooms and staircases cleansed and white-washed 30
Houses cleansed and white-washed throughout 50
Ceilings, stairs, and roofs repaired 8
Basements, yards, and closets lime-whited 26
Underground dwellings discontinued 3
Cisterns or water-butts covered or cleansed 47
Overcrowding abated 2
Rooms disinfected after infectious disease 26
Water supply provided 6
Bakehouses lime-whited 1•
Miscellaneous 13

Table: TABLE V.Showing the number of deaths occurring in the Parish from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, excluding those non-residents who died in the Charing Cross Hospital, and including those parishioners who died in public institutions outside the Parish during the years1883-84-85-86-87-88.

TABLE V.

Showing the number of deaths occurring in the Parish from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, excluding those non-residents who died in the Charing Cross Hospital, and including those parishioners who died in public institutions outside the Parish during the years1883-84-85-86-87-88.

disease.1883.1884.1885.1886-1887.1888.
Small-Pox124---
Measles2910106510
Scarlet Fever631—39
Diphtheria614133
Whooping Cough21371344
Fever511313
Diarrhœa91461484
Total584433372433