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Finchley 1958

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]

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Number of Certificates issued 37
Number of Certificates not issued (becausc work had
been done or undertaking already given by landlord)
5
Number of Certificates refused 2
Number of Undertakings given by Landlords 32
Number of applications outstanding at end of year 4
Number of applications for Cancellation of Certificates for
Disrepair 16
Number of objections by tenants to cancellation 8
Number of Certificates cancelled 3
Number of cancellations refused 5
Number of applications outstanding at end of year 8
Number of applications for Certificates as to the Remedying
of Defects which the Landlord had Undertaken to
Remedy 19
Number of such Certificates issued 11
Number of Certificates not issued 4
Number of applications outstanding at end of year 4
Inspections
The total number of inspections made during the year was
14,303. At 383 of the houses and other premises visited, defects or
nuisances to the number of 983 were discovered, and at the end of
the year 1,020 including a number outstanding at the end of 1957
had been remedied or abated. The work in connection with 114 was
in hand and 1,473 were outstanding. In order to ascertain that the
sanitary defects were being properly remedied, 750 visits were paid
to the respective premises while the work was in progress.
The total number of inspections made in regard to each section
of work is recorded below, together with a summary of the sanitary
improvements carried out:—
38