Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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Stable Floors repaved | 5 |
Floors of Rooms repaired | 14 |
Floors of Rooms relaid | 18 |
Bakehouses cleansed and limewashed every six months | |
Improvements to Dairies and Cowsheds | 4 |
Cowsheds cleansed and limewashed every six months | |
Improvements to Slaughterhouses | 1 |
Slaughterhouses cleansed and limewashed every three months. | |
Manure Pits provided | 3 |
Ditto, ditto, covered | 1 |
Rooms repaired, cleansed and limewashed | 226 |
Workrooms cleansed and repaired | 10 |
Dirty Houses cleansed | 1 |
Water service pipes repaired | 16 |
Public water supply laid on to houses | 4 |
New cisterns provided | 6 |
Cisterns repaired, cleansed, and covered | 166 |
Movable sanitary dustbins provided | 95 |
Nuisances from overcrowding abated | 5 |
Nuisances from animals abated | 10 |
Accumulations of manure and refuse removed | 18 |
Miscellaneous | 49 |
INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND DISINFECTION.
Cases of infectious disease notified | 229 |
Number of rooms fumigated after infectious disease | 314 |
Verminous rooms fumigated | 20 |