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 1912
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1912
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Work of Mrs. Greenwood, Lady Sanitary Inspector,
1912.
First Visits. Phthisis 167
Infant Deaths 269
Homeworkers 371
Factories & Workshops 23
Measles 80
Births 109
Complaints 39
Sundries, (including Puerperal Fever, and
Ophthalmia Neonatorum) 320
Re-visits. Phthisis 426
Infant Deaths 239
Homeworkers 137
Factories & Workshops 12
Complaints 76
Births 200
2,458
Number of Notices served 124
Dirty rooms and tenements 35
W.C's dirty or defective 53
Insufficient W.C. accomodation 2
Yard paving defective or walls dirty 21
Waste pipe of sink defective 4
Dust bins absent or defective 15
Roofs and guttering defective 15
Wash-house walls dirty or paving defective 16
No water supply to upper floors 3
Rooms illegally occupied 6
Rooms overcrowded 17
Dirty floors & bedding 10
Other nuisances 13
Nuisances referred to District Ispectors 26
Supervision of weighing centres from September 25th, 1912 38