Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1912
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jewellery, 1 ; bays, purses, hair brushes, and combs, 5 ; secondhand
books, 3 ; boots, 6 ; oddments of cloth, 2 ; fish, wet and dry,
7; shell fish, 4; ice cream, hot drinks and roast chestnuts, 5
stalls.
Whitecross Street Banner Street and Roscoe Street,
—Vegetables and greengrocery, 18 ; fruit, 19 ; plants and flowers,
11; celery, 3; butchers, 13; bacon, 4; rabbits, 3; offal, 2 ; cats'
meat, 4 ; eels, 1 ; fish, wet and dry, 5 ; eggs, 1 ; sweets, 7 ; hot
drinks and baked chestnuts, 5 ; cakes and biscuits, 1 ; toys, 12 ;
books, magazines, comic papers and Christmas cards, 25 ; haberdashery—pins,
tapes, buttons, cotton, gloves, lace, brooches, 12;
millinery, feathers, braid, ribbons and artificial flowers, 6 ; secondhand
clothes, 9 ; hosiery, 9 ; chandlery,, 2 ; umbrellas, 1 ; secondhand
furniture, 1 ; china, glass ware and household ironmongery,
10; keys and locks, 1 ; fountain pens, 1 ; boots and boot repairing
materials, 7 ; hair oil and toilet requisites, 2 stalls.
Exmouth Street and Rosoman Street.—Vegetables and
greengrocery, 23 ; fruit, 16 ; cut flowers, 4; general grocery, 1 ;
butchers, 12 ; bacon, 1; rabbits, 1 ; fish, wet and dry, 4; eels, 1 ;
shell fish, 1 ; cats' meat, 2 ; ice cream, 3 ; sweets, 1; toys, 1 ; soaps,
powders and toilet requisites, 1 ; clothes, 8; boots and boot repairing
materials, 5 ; haberdashery, 10 ; millinery, 4 ; china, glassware,
household ironmongery and mats, 10; keys, locks and miscellaneous
ironwork, 4; carpets, 1; books, magazines and comic
papers, 2 ; hair restorers, one stall.
Slaughter houses.—In Finsbury there are three slaughter
houses; the owners' names and addresses are as follows:-—
Mr. A. E. Spink, 20, Amwell Street.
Mr. Thos. Webb, 191, Goswell Road.
Mr. J. A Mobbs, 14, Penton Street.
The Goswell Road slaughter house is licensed for the slaughter
of small animals only.
The average number of animals slaughtered in the Finsbury
slaughter houses is 24 per week—2 heads of cattle and 22 sheep.
The quality of meat is distinctly good.