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REPORT OF INSPECTOR T. G. DEE.
Sanitary Department,
Town Hall, Westminster.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Sir,
Herewith I beg to submit the report of the sanitary duties
performed by me in the parish of St. John, during the year
ending March 25th, 1891:—
Number of visits made to ground proceedings 1961
„ „ slaughterhouses 12
„ „ cowhouses 10
„ „ bakehouses 62
Number of complaints from Inhabitants' Complaints Book 31
Notifications and written orders from medical officer 451
Number of Notices served to remedy the following
sanitary defects, 873:—
W.c.'s supplied from drinking water cistern 168
W.c.'s without water supplies 58
W.c.'s dirty, defective, or not ventilated 102
New cisterns 10
Cisterns without covers 16
Cisterns or butts foul 35
Overflow pipes from cisterns to drains 3
Waste pipes from sinks into drains 81
Water apparatus defective 87
Dust bins defective or new ones required 98
Rooms dirty 280
Passages or staircases dirty 82
Rooms overcrowded 20
Houses or rooms requiring disinfection 361
Underground rooms illegally occupied 15
Drains stopped 62
Defective brick or pipe drains 189
Defective traps to drains 341
Yard paving defective 74
Walls of yards or washhouses to be limewhited 29
Stables or cowsheds dirty or defective 15
Accumulation of refuse 15
Bakehouses dirty 1
Miscellaneous 68
Total defects 2210