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The water supply to all dwellings in the Borough is direct from the public water
mains.
Sewerage and Sewage Disposal
Finchley has been completely sewered for many years, and, where necessary, works
of enlargement have been carried out. So far as sewage disposal is concerned, it should
be pointed out that the Sewage Works situated in the East of the Borough are seriously
overloaded and considerable effort has to be made to maintain a satisfactory effluent.
However, work on the East Middlesex main drainage scheme is proceeding, and it is
hoped that Finchley will be joined to this scheme in 1963. Periodic tests are carried
out on the effluent from the Sewage Disposal Works.
I am grateful to Mr. P. M. Spencer, the Borough Engineer and Surveyor, for this
information.
Housing
I refer again to the housing of elderly persons and with the kind assistance of the
Borough Housing Officer I give details of the Council's activities in this connection
during 1961:-
Number of purpose-built elderly persons' units, excluding one
caretaker's flat, completed 20
Number of elderly persons' units made available by conversion 20
A number of the occupants of these units are suffering from disabilities and are,
to some extent, "handicapped persons."
It should be remembered that the Council have done quite a lot in this direction
for many years, as numbers of ordinary one-bedroom units which were built before the
term "elderly persons' dwellings "became" fashionable "have, in fact, provided homes
for old people. Approximately 60 of the Council's ordinary one-bedroom dwellings
are so used at the moment in addition to the purpose-built elderly persons' dwellings
erected prior to January, 1960, which number twenty-nine, plus similar units provided
by conversions amounting to twenty-eight.
The Public Health Department continued to be actively concerned with housing
applications, in some cases supported by medical certificates, referred by the Borough
Housing Officer for consideration of additional points on medical grounds.
Additional points awarded:-
Points Award Number of Applicants
1 3
2 5
3 6
4 7
5 (maximum) 3
In addition, observations were requested on a number of applications in respect
of the sanitary circumstances and state of overcrowding. In special cases where the
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