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 1908
[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 |