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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 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 T. LIGHTFOOT.
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
ended March 25th, 1892:—
Number of visits made to ground proceedings 1643
,, ,, slaughterhouses 13
,, ,, cowhouses 7
,, „ bakehouses 49
Number of complaints from Inhabitants' Complaints Book 14
Notifications and written orders from medical officer 415
Number of notices served to remedy the following sanitary defects, 754:—
| W.c.'s supplied from drinking water cistern | 114 |
| W.c.'s without water supplies | 111 |
| W.c.'s dirty, defective, or not ventilated | 157 |
| New cisterns | 6 |
| Cisterns without covers | 16 |
| Cisterns or butts foul | 33 |
| Overflow pipes from cisterns to drains | 5 |
| Waste pipes from sinks into drains | 91 |
| Water apparatus defective | 64 |
| Dust bins defective or new ones required | 90 |
| Rooms dirty | 273 |
| Passages or staircases dirty | 52 |
| Rooms overcrowded | 14 |
| Houses or rooms requiring disinfection | 152 |
| Underground rooms illegally occupied | 6 |
| Drains stopped | 85 |
| Defective brick or pipe drains | 135 |
| Defective traps to drains | 384 |
| Yard paving defective | 83 |
| Walls of yards or washhouses to be limewhited | 66 |
| Stables or cowsheds dirty or defective | 5 |
| Accumulation of refuse | 31 |
| Bakehouses dirty | ... |
| Miscellaneous | 138 |
| Total defects | 2111 |