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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

Westminster 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster]

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REPORT OF INSPECTOR T. ASHDOWN.
Sanitary Department,
Town Hall, Westminster.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Sir,
In compliance with your instructions I beg to submit to you
the following information respecting the sanitary duties performed
in the Parish of St. Margaret, from March 26th, 1889,
till March 25th, 1890.
Premises demolished 51 houses and 1 stable.
No. of visits made to ground proceedings 1502
Summonses taken out 17
Visits to Slaughterhouses 5
„ Cowhouses 3
„ Bakehouses 14
Closets open to the public 8
Viz.: At Willow Place 3
Carpenter's Buildings 4
Black Horse Yard 1
Drinking water supplied from closet cisterns 359
Complaints from Inhabitants'Complaint Book 24
Notifications and written orders from Medical Officer of
Health 177

Table: Number of notices served to remedy the following sanitary defects, 872 :—

Number of notices served to remedy the following sanitary defects, 872 :—

W. C.'s supplied from drinking water cisterns359
W. C.'s without water supplies96
W. C.'s dirty, defective or not ventilated275
New Cisterns3
Cisterns without covers82
„ or butts foul63
Overflow pipes from cisterns to drains54
Waste pipes from sinks to drains283
Water apparatus defective78
Dust bins defective or new ones required187
Rooms dirty297
Passages or staircases dirty52
Rooms overcrowded19
Houses or rooms requiring disinfection74
Underground rooms illegally occupied27
Drains stopped61
Defective brick or pipe drain176
Defective traps to drains281
Yard pavings defective61
Walls of yards or washhouses to be limewhited13
Stables or Cowsheds dirty or defective in respect of drainage11