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 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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Farriers and Blacksmiths 2
General Engineers and Motor Engineers 59
Glass Blowers 2
Laundries 3
Monumental Masons 4
Plastic Manufacturers 2
Prepared Meat Factories 2
Printers and Printers' Accessories 12
Restaurant Kitchens 75
Tailors and Dressmakers 21
Timber Merchants and Sawyers 9
Tyre re-treading 3
Upholsterers 9
Watch and Clock Repairers 3
X-Ray Apparatus 1
Other trades 67
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
Ventilated lobbies provided 1
Artificial lighting provided to W.Cs. 2
New W.C pans provided 2
W.Cs. cleansed or repaired 14
Joints between flush pipes and W.C. pans repaired 3
Flushing cisterns provided or repaired 4
Urinals cleansed 1
New sinks provided 3
New sink wastepipes provided 2
Smoke nuisances abated 1
Drains unstopped or repaired 7
Fresh air inlet shafts repaired 1
Floors repaired 3
Premises cleansed 8
Miscellaneous 7
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