Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finsbury Borough]
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During the year the total number of ??? inapected was 46, none
of which carried any offensive cargo. Contravention of statutory requirments
had taken place in two instances. There was no discovery or notification of
infectious disonse. The number of children on the bonts was 20, of whom 12
were of school ago.
AGED AND IN???PERSONS:
No application for compulsory removal to hospital was during the
year. Aged persons known to the Department to be living alone are visited
periodieally to ensure the institutional treatment or core is obtained if
necessary. There were at the end of the year 23 persons on the register
kept for the purpose, to whom 164 visits were made.
STRICT TRADERS:
161 visits were made to the premison of street traders
foodstuffs.
COMMON LODGING HOUSES:
There is one Common Lodging House in th Borough,situato at No, 88
Old Street and the number of visits made by the Sanitary Inspector was 45.
HOUSE LET IN LODGING:
At the end of the year there were 520 houses on the Register and 1,231
visits were in connection with the Houses Let In Lodgings Byelaws.
MORTUARY:
59 bodies were received at the mortuary attached to the Kealth Centre
promisos.
DISINEECTION
The following table gives particulars of the disinfection work carried
out during 1942.
The following table gives particulars of the disinfection work carried out during 1942.
Promises disinfected after:- | |
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Diphtheria | 41 |
Measles | 81 |
Vermin and Scabies | 971 |
Scarlet Fever | 49 |
Tubereulosis | 41 |
Whooping Cough | 63 |
Miscelloneous | 128 |
By request | 119 |
A total number of 26,527 articles were disinfected, being chiefly mattresses,
pillows, bolsters, shoots, blankets and wearing apparol. In addition, 37,981
articles were disinfected prior to Export and foos charged for this work "mounted
to £77. 10. od.