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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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A large number of enquiries into the cases of measles occurring in the Borough during 1904
| Measles. | |
|---|---|
| No. of Cases investigated | 680 |
| „ Re-Visits paid | 298 |
| „ Nuisances found | 52 |
| Notices served | 41 |
| Rooms stripped and cleansed | 9 |
| Dirty Floors and Bedding | 7 |
| Staircases stripped and cleansed | 8 |
| Sanitary Conveniences cleansed | 7 |
| „ „ defects remedied | 7 |
| Overcrowding of Rooms abated | 4 |
| Yard Walls limewashed | 3 |
| Washhouses limewashed and repaired | 3 |
| Underground Rooms illegally occupied | 2 |
| Other Nuisances remedied | 2 |
The Lady Inspector has also carried out a large amount of work
in connection with the inspection of factories and workshops,
particularly, of course, those places where women and girls were
chiefly or only employed. This work has been of a kind which it
is not easy, accurately, to summarize, but the following Table sets
out briefly a record of such inspection, etc. Some of the items here
tabulated are incorporated in the Tables appearing on pp. 185 and
186, but the returns below concern only the work of the Lady
Inspector:—