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 1964
[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 prosecution were instituted | ||
| To H. M. Inspector | By H. M. Inspector | ||||
| Want of Cleanliness (S.l). | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Overcrowding (S.2). | - | - | - | - | - |
| Unreasonable Temperature (S.3). | - | 1 | - | ||
| Inadequate ventilation (S.4). | 1 | _ | 1 | - | |
| Ineffective drainage of floors (S.6). | - | ||||
| Sanitary Conveniences (S.7) (a) Insufficent | - | - | - | - | - |
| (b) Unsuitable or defective | 70 | 70 | _ | 13 | -_ |
| (c) Not separate for sexes | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| Other offences against the Act (not including offences relating to Outwork). | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 73 | 72 | 1 | 17 | - |
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
diseases have been disinfected or destroyed.
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