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
Finchley 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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60
Slaughterhouses cleansed and limewashed every three
months.
Manure Pits provided 3
Rooms repaired, cleansed, and limewashed 184
Workrooms cleansed and repaired 20
Dirty Houses cleansed 3
Water service pipes repaired 15
Public water supply laid on to houses 6
New cisterns provided ... ... ... 1
Cisterns repaired, cleansed, and covered ... 63
Movable sanitary dustbins provided ... ... 90
Nuisances from overcrowding abated 7
Nuisances from animals abated 7
Smoke nuisances abated 2
Accumulations of manure and refuse removed 26
Floors of piggeries repaired 5
Miscellaneous 31
INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND DISINFECTION.
Cases of infectious disease notified 216
Number of rooms fumigated after infectious disease 237
Verminous rooms fumigated 2
Number of infected rooms stripped and cleansed 21
Number of articles disinfected 3936
N.B.—In addition to the above work of disinfection, 69
stovings of bedding, etc., were carried out, and 45 patients
were removed to hospital for the Friern Barnet District
Council.