London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Finsbury 1904
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1904 including annual report on factories and workshops
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| Index Number. | Nature of Premises. | Description of Room. | Number of Occupants and Space. | Gas, Oil, or Electric Light, in use at time of test. | Dale, Time, and Position of Test. | Volume of CO2 per 10,000. | Means of Ventilation in in actual use at time of test. | Remarks. | |||||
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| Position, Process, &c. | Cubic Capacity, in feet. | Height. | Number present. | Space per person. | Date and Time | Where Sampled. • | Inside Room. | Outside Air. | |||||
| 36 | Button workshop | 2nd floor. Metal stamping, &c. | 8835 | 9 ft. 6 in. | 22 | 401 | 1 5 gas jets | 3.30 p.m., Dec. 15th, 1904 | Body of room | • 21 | 4.5 | All windows shut; staircase from below | This room received a constant supply of foul air from the staircase leading from 1st floor |
| Ditto | 3rd floor (ditto) | 4408 | 10 ft. | 3 | 1946 | No gas | Ditto | Top of stairs from 2nd floor | 27 | 4.5 | One window, 6 in. at top; staircase from below | Supplied by staircase with foul air from lower floors. | |
| Ditto | 1st floor (ditto) • | 8835 | 9 ft. 6 in. | 9 | 926 | 3 gas jets | Ditto | Body of room | 10 | 4.5 | Two large windows, 2 in. at top ; staircase to 2nd floor | The air in this room was tested last, when the large window's had been open for twenty minutes, hence the wide discrepancy between the 1st and 2nd floors. | |
| 17 | Joinery workshop | Basement. Part partitioned off from kitchen | approx. 7560 • | 10 ft. 6 in. | 3 | 2529 | 3 gas jets | 3 p.m., May 30th, 1904 | Body of room | 10 | 3.5 (est'd.) | Large window in front; no ventilation in rear | Between first test, May 30th, and second test, Dec. 12th, an air shaft was constructed in rear of shop and through ventilation established. |
| 25A | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto | 5 | 1512 | 4 gas jets | 11 a.m.,Dec. 12th, 1904 | Body of room | 6 | Ditto | Window in front and air shaft in rear | |