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 1911
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 | |