London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Finchley 1946

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]

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categories as follows
(a) The repair of a sanitary breakdown in a
building to safeguard the health of the
occupant s.
(b) The repair of a building to avoid imminent
collapse of a defective part of the
structure. This may include painting for
protective purposes and minimum repairs to
maintain weather tightness.
(c) The essential repair of gas, electrical
and water services, drains and sewers
where the whole or part of the installation
is either out of use or in a dangerous
condition.
(d) The replacement of defective stoves, fires,
boilers, water heaters and other essential
equipment in order to make the premises
fit for occupation.
(e) Urgent works required by a Statutory Notice.
This work occupies a very large amount of the time of
the inspectors and clerks, but has the advantage that to
a great extent, material and labour are directed to
premises most in need of repair and when an owner is
served with a ranitary notice to execute work, a building
licence application form is enclosed and apart from saving
time the owner or builder has only one department to deal
with.
DISINFECTION AND PISINFESTATION
Number of rooms sprayed and fumigated after
infectious disease 236
Verminous rooms sprayed and fumigated 115
Number of articles disinfected 3582
Number of verminous premises dealt with 39
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