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Finsbury 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finsbury Borough]
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SECTION C.
Sanitary Circumstances.
Water.
The Borough is freely supplied with water by the Metropolitan
Water Board. No samples of drinking water for bacteriological or
chemical tests were taken during 1951 by the Sanitary Inspectors.
Swimming Baths.
There are 4 indoor swimming baths in the Borough, 3 of which
belong to the Council all of which maintain regular chlorination of
the water. Bacteriological examination has shown an almost complete
freedom from contamination.
Sanitary Conditions.
The Sanitary conditions of the Borough were subject to routine
inspection and investigations were made into the circumstances
of all complaints made.
The work undertaken apart from that detailed elsewhere in
this report is summarized in the following table:—
Sanitary Conditions.
| Houses, damp, dirty or dilapidated, remedied | 565 |
| Doors, windows, floors, walls, ceilings, sashcords repaired | 665 |
| Water closet defects remedied | 188 |
| Water closets erected | 151 |
| Urinal defects remedied | 22 |
| Urinals erected | 20 |
| Soil pipe and ventilating shaft defects remedied | 24 |
| Soil pipe and ventilating shafts erected | 72 |
| Yard defects remedied | 29 |
| Waste pipe defects remedied | 63 |
| Waste pipes erected | 47 |
| Water cistern defects remedied | 60 |
| Accumulations of rubbish or manure removed | 87 |