Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1913
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Summary of Defaults and Defects in Factories, Work-shops and Workplaces for which Notices were served during 1913.
Work. shops. | Factories. | Work. places. | Totals. | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Dirty workshops and workplaces | 71 | 2 | 1 | 74 |
Damp and dilapidated premises | 14 | 3 | ... | 17 |
Dirty passages and staircases | 15 | 1 | 1 | 17 |
Overcrowding of workshops | 7 | ... | ... | 7 |
Insufficient ventilation | 14 | ... | ... | 14 |
Want of drainage of floors | 1 | ... | ... | 1 |
Water supply lacking or inadequate | 2 | 4 | ... | 6 |
Sanitary conveniences, dirty | 97 | 27 | 7 | 131 |
Sanitary conveniences, defective | 54 | 33 | 13 | 100 |
No sanitary convenience | 1 | ... | 1 | 2 |
Insufficient sanitary convenience accommodation | 17 | 17 | 2 | 36 |
Improper use of sanitary conveniences by both sexes | 12 | 4 | 5 | 21 |
Yards dirty, or paving worn | 11 | 4 | 1 | 16 |
Storage cisterns dirty or defective | 11 | 1 | ... | 12 |
Accumulations of refuse | 12 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
Dustbins, defective or absent | 32 | 5 | 2 | 39 |
Drainage defective or choked | 10 | 5 | 1 | 16 |
Rain-water pipes choked or broken | 3 | ... | 1 | 4 |
Stables dirty | .. | ... | 1 | 1 |
Stable paving defective | ... | ... | 1 | 1 |
Nuisance from rats | 1 | 1 | ... | 2 |
Absence of guttering | 8 | ... | ... | 8 |
Waste pipes defective | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
Ventilating pipe defective | ... | ... | 1 | 1 |
Roofs leaky | 17 | 1 | ... | 18 |
Nuisances from emission of black smoke | ... | 3 | ... | 3 |
Totals | 414 | 118 | 40 | 572 |
In connection with these defects 280 intimation notices and 60
statutory notices were served,