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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First Visits. | Births | 189 |
Infant Deaths | 32 2 | |
Measles | 250 | |
Outworkers (Home-workers) | 574 | |
Factories | 8 | |
Workshops | 32 | |
Phthisis | 123 | |
Laundries | 267 | |
Re-visits. | Births | 138 |
Infant Deaths | 212 | |
Measles | 147 | |
Outworkers (Home-workers) | 322 | |
Factories | 4 | |
Workshops | 11 | |
Phthisis | 167 | |
2,766 | ||
Number of Notices served | 160 | |
Dirty rooms and tenements | 52 | |
Defective flooring and broken sash cords | 16 | |
Dirty floors and bedding | 22 | |
Workshops dirty | 2 | |
Overcrowding | 27 | |
Rooms illegally occupied | 4 | |
Sanitary convenience dirty | 28 | |
Sanitary conveniences defects | 40 | |
Insufficient w.c. accommodation | 7 | |
Yard walls dirty | 22 | |
Defective paving of yard or drain choked | 12 | |
Defective sink pipes or water cistern | 14 | |
Defective dustbin or absence of dustbin | 20 | |
Defective roofs or guttering | 7 | |
Area walls or basement dirty | 8 | |
Dirty walls and ceiling of washhouse, defective paving and roof | 11 | |
Miscellaneous nuisances | 20 | |
Nuisances referred to District Inspectors | 43 |