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Finchley 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]

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negatived, however, by the exemption from the operation
of the section of any room, etc., to which the
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, applies. It will be
realised that practically any room in which the work of
preparation or adaptation of the article of food takes
place would constitute either a factory or a workshop.
Slaughterhouses.

The number of private slaughterhouses in use in Finchley at the dates mentioned hereunder was as follows:—

Type of Slaughterhouse1920In January, 1925In December, 1925
RegisteredNil.Nil.Nil.
Licensed10108
Totals10108

During the five years under review, there have
been changes of occupation of slaughterhouses in four
cases. One slaughterhouse was vacated at Kenwood
Farm, Hampstead Lane, and the premises subsequently
demolished and the use of another slaughterhouse of an
unsatisfactory type at the rear of 3, High Street, North
Finchley, was discontinued and the licence lapsed.
A licence was granted by the Council for the adaptation
and use of a building as a slaughterhouse at Park
Farm, East End Road, East Finchley, in 1921, and an
application for a licence for the use and occupation of
a building as a slaughterhouse at Dollis Park Farm,
Nether Street, Church End, was refused in 1923.
At the end of 1925 there were eight private
slaughterhouses in the district, each of the premises
being licensed for a period of twelve months. Of this
number five cannot be regarded as reaching a really
satisfactory hygienic standard owing to their unsuitable
position in relation to other premises or otherwise being
of insufficient size, badly planned and so constructed as
to make it extremely difficult to effect structural improvement.
The early history of some of these buildings
is somewhat obscure, but they were probably not
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