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162 complaints with regard to alleged nuisances were
received during the year, and prompt attention was given to
each.
334 rooms were fumigated; and 6,410 articles, chiefly
bedding and wearing apparel, were disinfected in the Council's
steam apparatus. In addition to the above, 104 stovings of
bedding, etc., were carried out and 64 patients were removed
to hospital from the Friern Barnet District Council.
A large number of house drains were reconstructed, the
work being supervised in a thorough and satisfactory manner
by the Sanitary Inspector. A plan of each drain re-laid is
made by the Inspector, and this, together with all necessary
particulars, is filed for future reference.
The meat, fish, poultry, and fruit shops, and premises
where food is prepared for sale, have been kept under observation.
A full statement of the work done under the Nuisance
Sections of the Public Health Acts, together with notes regarding
the dairies, slaughterhouses, etc., will be found in
the appended report of the Sanitary Inspector.
Factories and Workshops.
All the Workshops and Work-places in the District have
been inspected during the year, and various sanitary defects
remedied as a consequence.
Very little home work appears to be given out in the
District, and only a few names of out-workers have been
received from other districts. At some of the Workshops the
work done is for firms in London, but the total amount is
not large.
The following Tables are on the lines of those issued by
the Secretary of State. Tables 1 and 2 are printed in full,
the remaining Tables only so far as the particulars affect this
District.