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Finchley 1938

[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 1938
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Finchley.
I have the honour to present to you my Thirty-seventh
Annual Report dealing with the work carried out by your
Sanitary Inspectors during the Year 1938.
The total number of inspections made during the year
was 15,570. At 1,314 of the houses and other premises
visited, defects or nuisances to the number of 5,967 were
discovered, and at the end of the year 5,172 of these had
been remedied or abated, the work in connection with 672
was in hand, and the remaining 123 were outstanding. In
order to ascertain that the sanitary defects were being
properly remedied, 2,024 visits were paid to the respective
premises while the work was in progress.
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