Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1911
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The factories on the register include 7 tenement factories, in
which there are 32 occupiers, carrying on different trades or processes,
and supplied with mechanical power by the owners of such
factories. Each of these occupiers and his tenement is individually
and separately subject to the provisions of the Factory Acts, but
the whole premises are treated as one building.
During the year 3,442 inspections and re-visits were made by
the Council's Inspector. A summary of the defects found is
appended:—
Summary of Defaults and Defects in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces for which Notices were served during 1911.
Damp and dilapidated premises | 48 | 10 | ... | 58 |
Dirty passages and staircases | 19 | 5 | 1 | 25 |
Overcrowded workshops | 11 | ... | ... | 11 |
Insufficient ventilation | 23 | 1 | ... | 24 |
Fumes from stoves, gas stoves and gas | 8 | 2 | ... | 10 |
Drainage of floors. | 3 | 8 | ... | 11 |
Water supply inadequate | 9 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
Sanitary conveniences, cleansing | 74 | 81 | 9 | 164 |
Sanitary conveniences, defects | 113 | 115 | 19 | 247 |
No sanitary convenience. | 6 | ... | 3 | 9 |
Insufficient sanitary convenience accommodation | 1 | 8 | ... | 9 |
Improper use of sanitary con— | ||||
veniences by both sexes | 22 | 13 | 5 | 40 |
Defective soil pipes | ... | 6 | ... | 6 |
Yards cleansed, paved, or paving repaired | 14 | 10 | 1 | 25 |
Defective sinks, gullies and wastepipes | 39 | 34 | 2 | 75 |
Water cisterns dirty and defective | 45 | 23 | 5 | 73 |
Accumulations of refuse | 13 | 11 | 1 | 25 |
Dustbins, defective or absent | 49 | 28 | 7 | 84 |
Drainage defective | 8 | 14 | 7 | 29 |
Rain-water pipes choked or broken | 6 | 5 | ... | 11 |
Stables in need of limewashing | 1 | ... | 1 | 2 |
Stable paving defective | ... | ... | 1 | 1 |
N uisance from rats and dead mice | 2 | 1 | ... | 3 |
Improper keeping of dog | ... | 1 | ... | 1 |
Food utensils and fittings dirty | 2 | 2 | ... | 4 |
Black smoke emission | ... | 1 | ... | 1 |
Totals | 681 | 388 | 73 | 1,142 |