London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Finchley 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]

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Laundry 1
Monumental Masons 4
Plant Propagation 1
Plastic Manufacturers 3
Prepared Meat Factories 6
Printers and Printers' Accessories 11
Restaurant Kitchens 67
Tailors and Dressmakers 18
Timber Merchants and Sawyers 10
Tyre re-treading 3
Upholsterers 10
Watch and Clock Repairers 3
X-Ray Apparatus 1
Other Trades 61
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 4
Ventilated lobbies provided 5
Artificial lighting provided to W.C 1
New W.C. pan provided 1
W.Cs. cleansed or repaired 10
Urinal Cleansed 1
Joints between flush pipe and W.C. pan repaired 3
Flushing cisterns provided or repaired 1
New sinks provided 4
New sink wastepipes provided 2
Drains unstopped 1
Fresh air inlet repaired 1
Smoke nuisance abated 1
Floors repaired 2
Premises cleansed 9
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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