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 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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Factory and Workshop Acts, 1901 and 1907.
The total number of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces
on the Register is 375.
The trades carried on at the respective premises are as
follows:—
Bakehouses 40
Boot Polish Manufacturer 1
Boot Repairers. 43
Builders' Workshops 18
Cycle Makers or Repairers 5
Farriers and Blacksmiths 6
Glass Blowers. 1
General Engineers and Motor Engineers 53
Laundries 10
Monumental Masons 7
Motor Accessory Manufacturers. 4
Prepared Meat Factories 2
Printers and Printers' Accessories 17
Restaurant Kitchens 52
Sheet Metal Workers 2
Shop Fitters 2
Sports Accessory Manufacturers 3
Tailors and Dressmakers 36
Timber Merchants and Sawyers 16
Tyre Re-treading. 1
Upholsterers 13
Watch and Clock Repairers 7
Other Trades. 36
375
These premises have been visited from time to time,
and as a result of action taken by the department the following
works have been carried out:—
W.C. apartments provided or reconstructed 1
New W.C. Pans provided 3
W.C.'s cleansed or repaired 19
50