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Finchley 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]

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BOROUGH OF FINCHLEY
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Chief Sanitary Inspector
For the Year 1936
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Finchley.
I have the honour to present to you my Thirty-fifth
Annual Report dealing with the work carried out by your
Sanitary Inspectors during the Year 1936.
The total number of inspections made during the year
was 10,969. At 1,242 of the houses and other premises
visited, defects or nuisances to the number of 3,336 were
discovered, and at the end of the year 2,611 of these had
been remedied or abated, the work in connection with 643
was in hand, and the remaining 82 were outstanding. In
order to ascertain that the sanitary defects were being
properly remedied, 1,415 visits were paid to the respective
premises while the work was in progress.
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