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Bakehouses.
There were 37 bakehouses on the register at the end of the year.
All of these are classed as factories, and 34 of them use mechanical
power. 78 inspections were made and 12 notices served.
Five of the bakehouses were " basement bakehouses " within the
meaning of Section 54 of the Factories Act, 1937.
Miscellaneous Matters.
Conferences.
The Council were officially represented at the undermentioned
Conferences dealing with matters within the purview of the Public Health
Department.
Conference.
Royal Sanitary Institute. Margate
—22nd to 25th April.
Central Consultative Committee
on the Welfare of Old People.
London —19th June.
Sanitary Inspectors' Association.
Brighton—9th and 12th September.
National Smoke Abatement
Society. Portsmouth—24th to
26th September.
Delegates.
The Mayor and the Deputy
Medical Officer of Health.
Cllr. Mrs. E. A. Cooper, J.P."
and Cllr. Miss G. A. Morgan.
Cllr. Mrs. E. A. Cooper, J.P-and
the Chief Sanitary Inspector.
Aid. A. P. Holden and Mr. I. R.
Lewis, Factory and Workshops
Inspector.
Personal Cleansing Station.
During the year 1952 there were 1,994 children and 176 adults
cleansed and treated at the Station. Of the 1,994 children attending
234 were suffering from scabies or itch, a contagious parasitic skin
affection. The remainder were verminous. Of these children 1,894
attended from the public elementary schools in the Borough by arrangement
with the London County Council, who have entered into a contract
with the Battersea Borough Council for the use of their Personal
Cleansing Station. The cleansing and treatment of the school children
is carried out under the supervision of officers of the London County
Council while the disinfestation of the clothing and (if necessary) of
the homes is carried out concurrently by the Borough Council's sanitary
staff.