Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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Unsatisfactory lighting to staircase 6
Defective floors of rooms 20
Insanitary stone troughs and/or defective sinks 3
Defective and untrapped waste pipes 7
Defective, absence of, or insufficient yard paving 21
Absence of, or defective eaves guttering and stack
pipes 29
Nuisances from dampness 56
Absence of ventilation under floors 3
Absence of, or defective gratings to ventilation openings
under floors 2
Absence of sufficient ventilation to rooms 6
Windows, defective or not made to open 67
Defective window sills 11
Dirty, defective or uncovered service water cisterns 11
Defective kitchen ranges 28
Defective' stoves 10
Defective coppers 18
Defective chimneys 2
Broken sash cords 175
Defective service water pipes 5
Defective dustbins 19
Absence of, or defective gully curbs 6
Miscellaneous 56.
An analysis of the house-to-house records for the year
1935 has been made, and the following statistical information
compiled therefrom:—
Dwelling Houses.
Number of houses inspected 213
Number of Rooms.
Living Rooms 427
Sleeping Rooms 544
Bed-living Rooms 28
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