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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Finchley 1947

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]

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Table: These premises have been visited from time to time and, as a result of action taken by the department, the following works have been carried out :—

These premises have been visited from time to time and, as a result of action taken by the department, the following works have been carried out :—

W.C. apartments provided or reconstructed1
Artificial lighting to W.C.'s provided1
New W.C. pans provided1
W.C.'s cleansed or repaired5
Flushing cisterns provided1
New sinks or lavatory basins provided10
Sink waste pipes provided1
Floors repaired and/or cleansed1
Workshops cleansed10
Smoke nuisance abated1

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SMOKE ABATEMENT
The factory chimneys in the area have been kept under observation and generally little nuisance from
smoke or grit has occurred. The occupiers of several more bakehouses have co-operated and converted
their ovens from solid fuel to gas.
The owners of a new factory agreed to instal oil burning apparatus for use in connection with their
boiler plant.
INSPECTION OF MEAT AND FOOD
The inspection of food and food preparing premises has received the special attention of the sanitary
Inspectors.
Many new food shops, chiefly cafes and greengrocers have been opened up in the district and although
there appears to be little difficulty in obtaining the necessary permission of the Ministry of Food for this
purpose there is great difficulty in obtaining suitable materials and equipment to bring the premises up to
the standard one would desire. It is the opinion of the department that the time has arrived when, if such
shops are necessary, they shoulcf be properly equipped.
642 visits have been made by your inspectors to various food premises.
The list of food condemned is shown below.
Four private slaughterhouses are licensed and occasional slaughter is carried on at one of them on
permits from the Food Office.
UNSOUND FOOD
9354½ lbs. Beef 230 lbs. Dates
3 casks Pigs' Trotters 60 lbs. Prunes
½ leg Lamb 84 lbs. Pearl Barley
14 lbs. Lambs' Sweetbreads. 84 lbs. Barley Flakes
11 3/4 lbs. Mutton. 28 lbs. Vermicelli
47 lbs. Sausage Meat 14 lbs. Spaghetti
195 stone 11½ lbs. Fish 1,077½ lbs. Butter Beans
6 ¼ stone Cod Roe 22 lbs. Split Peas
6 doz. Fish Cakes 11 lbs. Carroway Seeds
14 lbs. Shrimps 14 lbs. Mawn Seed
133 lbs. Prawns 1 packet Barley Kernels
184 lbs. Herring Roes 3 packets Barley Flakes
42 lbs. Kippers 1 packet Shredded Wheat
12 Chickens 1 packet Puffed Wheat
1 Turkey 6 packets Wheat Flakes
1 Goose 1 packet All Bran
60 lbs. Rabbits 1 packet Oats
22¼ lbs. Cheese 2 packets Semolina
10 lbs. Butter 102 packets Cake or Pudding Mixture
324 Eggs. 2 cartons Matzo Meal
56 lbs. Liquid Eggs 1 packet Egg Powder
1 lb. Frozen Eggs 2 packets Chocolate Cup
244 lbs. Sugar 2 packets Salt
2 lbs. 6 oz. Margarine 12-1½ lbs. blocks Salt
2 lbs. Ground Ginger 16 packets Pepper
77 lbs. Oatmeal 87 packets Dates
12 lbs. Cornflour 30 packets Cammembert Cheese
302 3/4 lbs. Semolina 3-7 lbs. jars Sweets
4 lbs. Tea 51 jars Jam
133 lbs. Self-raising Flour 23 jars Marmalade
42 lbs. Rolled Oats 3 jars Mincemeat
9 lbs. Cake Flour 2 jars Breakfast Spread
5½ cwt. Potatoes 1 jar Roll Mop Herrings
32 lbs. Tomatoes 9 jars Sardelles
172 lbs. Oranges 2 pots Paste
1 cask Orange Pulp 1 jar Herring Roe Spread
2 cases Apples 1 jar Marmite
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