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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Sheet Metal Workers 3
Sports Accessory manufacturers 2
Tailors and Dressmakers 28
Timber Merchants and Sawyers 15
Tyre Re-treading 2
Upholsterers 14
Watch and Clock Repairers 9
X-Ray Apparatus 1
Other Trades 44
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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 5
Ventilated lobby provided 2
W.C. apartments screened 1
New W. C. Pans provided 4
W.C.'s cleansed or repaired 27
Urinals provided 1
Urinals cleansed 1
Joints between flush pipes and W.C. pans repaired 6
Flushing Cisterns provided —
Flushing Cisterns repaired 2
New Sinks provided 2
New Sink Waste Pipes provided 1
Drains unstopped or repaired 7
Fresh air inlet shafts repaired 1
Roofs repaired —
Floors repaired and /or cleansed 4
Dustbins provided 10
Workshops cleansed 51
Accumulations of refuse removed 8
Smoke nuisance abated 4
Yards cleansed or repaired 3
Yards paved 2
Miscellaneous 37
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