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Bakehouses.
There were 34 bakehouses on the register at the end of the year.
All of these are classed as factories, and 31 of them use mechanical
power. 93 inspections were made and 3 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, Hastings
—28th April to 1st May.
Central Consultative Committee
on the Welfare of Old People,
London—19th June.
Sanitary Inspectors' Association,
Morecambe — 8th to 11th
September.
National Smoke Abatement
Society, Glasgow—30th September
to 2nd October.
Delegates.
Cllr. Mrs. E. A. Cooper, J.P..
and the Medical Officer of
Health.
Cllr. Mrs. C. M. Davis and
Mrs. E. Reynolds.
Cllr. Mrs. C. M. Davis and
Mr. I. R. Lewis, Sanitary
Inspector.
Cllr. Mrs. E. A. Cooper,
and Mr. G. W. P. Weeks.
Sanitary Inspector.
Personal Cleansing Station.
During the year 1953 there were 1,943 children and 144 adults
cleansed and treated at the Station. Of the 1,943 children attending.
169 were suffering from scabies or itch, a contagious parasitic skin
affection. The remainder were verminous. Of these children 1,879
attended from the 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