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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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| Laundry | 1 |
| Monumental Masons | 4 |
| Motor Accessory Manufacturer | 1 |
| Plastic Manufacturers | 2 |
| Prepared Meat Factories | 2 |
| Printers and Printers' Accessories | 11 |
| Restaurant Kitchens | 69 |
| Tailors and Dressmakers | 21 |
| Timber Merchants and Sawyers | 11 |
| Tyre re-treading | 3 |
| Upholsterers | 9 |
| Watch and Clock Repairers | 4 |
| X-Ray Apparatus | 1 |
| Other trades | 64 |
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 3
Ventilated lobbies provided 4
Artificial lighting provided to W.C. 1
New W.C. pan provided 1
W.Cs. cleansed or repaired 4
Joint between flush pipe and W.C. pan repaired 1
Flushing cisterns provided or repaired 3
New sinks provided 4
New sink wastepipes provided 7
Smoke nuisance abated 1
Floors repaired 5
Premises cleansed 34
Miscellaneous 8
Outworkers
Visits have been made by the Sanitary Inspectors to the
homes of persons notified as outworkers to the department from
adjoining local authorities. It has been found that the home conditions
are quite satisfactory.
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