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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 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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| Query. | Answer. |
|---|---|
| 5. (1) How many of the dwelling-houses inspected were found to be ill a stale so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation?— | |
| Four. | |
| (b) Above that limit. | None. |
| (2) And how many of those houses are still in that state:— | |
| (a) Within the limit of rent referred to. | One- The Cottage, Waiter Cress Beds, Regents Park Road. |
| (6) Above that limit. | None. |
| N.B.—One building formerly occupied as t,wo tenements made fit and converted into one dwelling house. | |
| One dwelling demolished. | |
| One dwelling recently closed but not yet demolished. | |
| 6. (1) How many of the dwelling-houses inspected, though not found to be in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation, were seriously defective from the point of view of danger to health or structural faults?— | Sanitary defects varying in their nature from comparatively trivial to grave were found as follows:— |
| (a) Within the limit of rent referred to. | (b) No. of houses where defects were found 962 No. of houses where defects were not found 337 1299 |
| No. of houses occupied by owners:— (1) Defects found 21 (2) Defects not found 31 52 | |
| Total 1546 |