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 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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Prepared Meat Factories 1
Printers and Printers' Accessories 11
Restaurant Kitchens 92
Sheet Metal Workers 1
Shop fitters 1
Tailors and Dressmakers 15
Temperature Recording Instrument Manufacturers 1
Timber Merchants and Sawyers 9
Upholsterers 9
Watch and Clock Repairers 4
X-Ray Apparatus 1
Other Trades 72
DISINFECTION AND DISINFESTATTON
In addition to the inspections made by the public health inspectors, the disinfectors
carried out the following visits:—
Disinfection 61
Disinfestation 174
Removal of household rubbish, etc 28
Summary of work carried out:—
Disinfection :
Rooms 16
Articles 463
Disinfestation:
Rooms 15
Articles 1
Premises
Bugs 3
Fleas 2
Cockroaches 1
Wasps 67
Bees 2
Lice 1
Moths 1
Hornets 1
A large number of verminous and dirty articles were destroyed.
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