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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. |
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| (2) And how many of those houses are still in such defective condition t— | The defects above referred to have been remedied, excepting the items which are in hand in connection with inspections which have been recently made. |
| 7. The number of vacant houses suitable for persons of the working classes and in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation. | None. |
| 8. The number of houses which are overcrowded on the basis adopted in the Census Returns, viz.:—more than two persons to a room. | Of 1,540 houses, the records show that 66 houses have an average of more than two persons per room. |
| 9. Number of new houses which in the opinion of the Local Authority is required to provide any necessary accommodation for persons of the working classes in the district and the nature and extent of such accommodation, e.g., separate houses, tenements number of rooms. | In answer to this query detailed information was given respecting your Council's proposed scheme for the erection of 300 dwellings for the working classes on the Woodhouse Road Estate. |