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 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finsbury Borough]
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| Particulars | Number of cases in which defects were found | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found | Remedied | Referred | Number of cases in which prosecutions were instituted | ||
| To H.M. Inspector | By H.M. Inspector | ||||
| Want of Cleanliness (S. 1) | 1 | – | 1 | – | – |
| Overcrowding (S.2) | – | – | – | – | – |
| Unreasonable Temperature (S.3). | – | – | – | – | – |
| Inadequate ventilation (S.4). | 1 | – | 1 | – | – |
| Ineffective drainage of floors (S.6) | – | – | – | – | – |
| Sanitary Conveniences (S.7). | |||||
| (a) Insufficient | 2 | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| (b) Unsuitable or defective | 43 | 38 | -– | 10 | – |
| (c) Not separate for sexes | 2 | 2 | – | 1 | – |
| Other offences against the Act (not including offences relating to Outwork). | 15 | 15 | – | ||
OUTWORKERS:
Many firms arrange for some work to be undertaken as outwork either
under contract by other factories or by homeworkers, and in order to
check the spread of vermin or infectious disease, information as to
such outwork must be supplied in relation to certain classes of work.
Because smallpox and scarlet fever, the two diseases considered most
likely to spread in this way, are no longer of serious concern, and
verminous premises only infrequently discovered, the supervision of
outwork has become of less importance than heretofore, and no formal
action has been required in any case for many years, though occasionally
by arrangement with the firms concerned, a few articles which might have
been in contact with infectious disease have been disinfected or destroyed.
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