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Private Enterprise.
14 flats and 14 houses were built by private enterprise and 6
flats were in course of construction at the end of the year. In addition
13 war-destroyed houses were rebuilt during the year providing
15 units of accommodation.
MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS.
During the year eighteen medical examinations were carried
out on entrants to the Council's employ for acceptance into the
Superannuation scheme.
WORK OF THE SANITARY INSPECTORS.
The following tables give a brief summary of the routine work
of the Sanitary Inspectors during the year. It will be seen that a
great part of the inspectors' time is devoted to inspection of dwelling
houses, as a result of which a very large number of repairs has been
carried out. Much of the house property in Wood Green is old, and
suffers from neglect and damage of the war years, aggravated by a
shortage of repair materials. Consequently the remedy of defects
is at times a slow process, but in the majority of cases the work is
done on the service of an informal notice, and only in a minority
of cases is it necessary to serve statutory notice requiring the work
to be done.
Another matter to which the Inspectors have devoted a great
deal of attention has been to improving the conditions under which
food is prepared and served to the public. This has entailed very
considerable demands on the owners or occupiers of food premises
for improved equipment and better facilities for washing of utensils
and also special provision of hot water and wash-basins for the
personal use of food handlers. These requests for improvements
have on the whole met with a ready response on the part of the
owners or occupiers and frequent visiting of food premises by the
sanitary inspectors has been accompanied in the past few years by
a very marked improvement in the conditions generally under
which food is handled. There is still room however for further
improvement but there is evidence that not only the food handler
but also the food buyer is becoming very conscious of the importance
of a higher standard of cleanliness in these matters than has generally
prevailed in the past.