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 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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The total number of Factories and Workplaces on the Register was 345 made up
as follows:—
Bakehouses 17
Boot Repairers 23
Builders' Workshops 16
Cycle Makers and Repairers 4
General Engineers and Motor Engineers 56
Glass Blowers 1
Joinery Manufacturers 1
Laundries 2
Monumental Masons 3
Plant Propagation 1
Plastic Manufacturers 2
Prepared Meat Factories 1
Printers and Printers' Accessories 11
Restaurant Kitchens 92
Sheet Metal Workers 1
Shopfitters 1
Tailors and Dressmakers 15
Temperature Recording Instrument Manufacturers 1
Timber Merchants and Sawyers 9
Upholsterers 10
Watch and Clock Repairers 4
X-Ray Apparatus 1
Other Trades 73
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:—
New pans provided 1
W.Cs. cleansed or repaired 16
Flushing cisterns repaired 2
New sink wastepipes provided 2
Drains unstopped or repaired 1
Smoke nuisance abated 1
Workshops cleansed 5
Urinals provided 1
Urinals cleansed 1
Artificial lighting to WCs. 4
New sinks or lavatory basins provided 4
Fresh air inlet shaft repaired 1
Floors repaired 3
Dustbins provided 6
Refuse removed 1
Miscellaneous 9
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