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Westminster 1891
[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 THOS. G. DEE.
Sanitary Department,
Town Hall, Westminster,
June 28th, 1892.
To the Medical officer of Health,
Sir,
Herein I beg to submit to you the report on the sanitary
work done in the parish of St. Margaret during the past year,
ended March 25th, 1892:—
Number of visits paid to ground proceedings 1651
„ „ slaughterhouses 3
,, ,, cowhouses 6
,, ,, bakehouses 40
,. of complaints from the Inhabitants' Complaints
Book 12
,, Notifications and written orders from the
Medical Officer of Health 247
Number of notices and intimations served to remedy the undermentioned sanitary defects, 589:—
| W.c.'s supplied from drinking water cisterns | 31 |
| W c.'s without water supplies | 80 |
| W.c.'s dirty, defective, or not ventilated | 117 |
| New cisterns for domestic purposes | 19 |
| Cisterns without covers | 21 |
| Cisterns and butts foul | 47 |
| Overflow-pipes from cisterns to drains | 15 |
| Waste-pipes from sinks to drains | 85 |
| Water apparatus defective | 80 |
| Dust-bins defective or new ones required | 36 |
| Rooms dirty | 217 |
| Passages or staircases dirty | 72 |
| Rooms overcrowded | 13 |
| Houses or rooms requiring disinfection | 165 |
| Underground rooms illegally occupied | 11 |
| Drains stopped | 55 |
| Defective brick or pipe drains | 135 |
| Defective traps to drains | 154 |
| Yard paving defective | 51 |
| Walls of yards or wash-houses to whitewash | 31 |
| Stables or cowsheds dirty or defective in respect to drainage | 3 |
| Accumulations of refuse | 41 |
| Bakehouses dirty | 21 |
| Miscellaneous | 187 |
| Total of defects | 1687 |