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 1923
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Work of the Lady Sanitary Inspector, 1923.
Visits and re-visits as follows:—
Homeworkers 467
Infectious disease investigations 373
Workshops and factories 1,359
Scabies and other skin diseases 356
Other visits 27
Number of notices served 234
Rooms and tenements dirt 69
W.C.'s dirty or defective 97
Yard walls dirty or paving broken 12
Flooring ana sashcords broken 5
Workshops dirty or overcrowded 49
Dustbins dilapidated or absent 3
Roofs leaky 2
Pipes leaky 8
Pipes choked 3
Accumulations of refuse 3
Gully grid absent 2
Rooms verminous 12
Lavatory basins and sinks foul 14
W.C. accommodation unsuitable 7
No intervening ventilating space between W.C's and
workroom 8
Matters reported to H.M. Inspector of Factories—
No abstract affixed 2
New occupation of premises 2
Inspector Davis. | Inspector Longden. | Inspector Norman. | Inspector Newdick. | Totals | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Houses damp, dirty or dilapidated, remedied | 168 | 120 | 131 | 147 | 566 |
Doors, windows, floors, walls, ceilings, sashcords repaired | 221 | 154 | 122 | 124 | 621 |
Overcrowding cases abated in other than Registered Houses | 1 | .. | 3 | .. | 4 |
Illegal occupation of underground rooms | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 2 |
Water closet defects remedied | 172 | 133 | 204 | 161 | 670 |
Water closets erected | 75 | 11 | 53 | 108 | 247 |
Urinal defects remedied | .. | .. | 11 | 7 | 18 |
Urinals erected | 5 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 35 |
Soil pipe and ventilating shafts erected | 26 | 8 | 38 | 34 | 106 |
Soil pipe and ventilating shaft delects remedied | 2 | 7 | 31 | 3 | 43 |
Yard defects remedied | 76 | 49 | 122 | 106 | 353 |
Waste pipe defects remedied | 2 | 19 | 20 | 24 | 65 |
Waste pipes erected | 31 | 6 | 47 | 35 | 119 |
Water cistern defects remedied | 13 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 45 |
Accumulations of rubbish or manure removed | 19 | !3 | 20 | 7 | 59 |
Dung or dust receptacles repaired or renewed | 37 | 42 | 54 | 54 | 187 |
Drains relaid or amended | 58 | 27 | 35 | 42 | 162 |
Drains cleared | 18 | 61 | 40 | 16 | 135 |
Rain water pipes cleared, repaired or renewed | 23 | 14 | 46 | 38 | 121 |
Water supply to houses reinstated | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
Roofs and gutters repaired | 125 | 87 | 108 | 62 | 382 |
Area defects remedied | 4 | 14 | 31 | 8 | 57 |