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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 1954
[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. Eight samples of drinking water for bacteriological
tests were taken during 1954 by the Sanitary Inspectors. All were
found to be satisfactory.
Swimming Baths.
The Borough Council maintains two modern swimming baths
whose waters are efficiently chlorinated.
The Northampton Polytechnic maintains a swimming bath
in summer which is available to the public at certain times. This
also is chlorinated.
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 :—
| Houses, damp, dirty or dilapidated, remedied | 623 |
| Doors, windows, floors, walls, ceilings, sashcords repaired | 772 |
| Water closet defects remedied | 177 |
| Water closets erected | 184 |
| Urinal defects remedied | 16 |
| Urinals erected | 28 |
| Soil pipe and ventilating shaft defects remedied | 34 |
| Soil pipe and ventilating shafts erected | 69 |
| Yard defects remedied | 40 |
| Waste pipe defects remedied | 104 |
| Waste pipes erected | 70 |
| Water cistern defects remedied | 70 |