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Wandsworth 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Number of employed at the closing of register | 122 |
| Left work, as above | 7 |
| Number of applicants known to have obtained work elsewhere | 266 |
| Number of satisfactory applicants waiting (so far as known) for employment | 447 |
| Number of unsuitable applicants, as above | 159 |
| 1,001 | |
| Total number of applicants who have received employment through the Distress Committee, for periods ranging from one day to fourteen weeks | 260 |
11. Since the closing of the Register 84 applications have
been received for emigration, of which 32 were considered unsuitable.
The Central Body have selected 12 married men and
families, and 16 single men for emigration, 21 of whom have
sailed; 24 cases are still under consideration.
Number of men from this Borough now employed;—(13th June).
| Hollesley Bay | 14 |
| Garden City | 5 |
| Fambridge | 4 |
| Tooting Pond | 22 |
| 45 |
Polling
Arrangements
(Parliamentary
Boroughs).
92. This Bill proposed to transfer from the Justices to the
County Council the power to divide Parliamentary
Boroughs into Polling districts. The County Council
has already the power with regard to polling districts for
County Council elections, and this Council being of opinion that
the division into polling districts of Parliamentary Boroughs and
County Council areas should be in the hands of one authority,
petitioned in favour of the Bill, which having passed the House
of Lords was dropped after first reading in the Commons.
Polling Districts
(County
Councils).
93. This Bill would authorise the County Council to exercise
their powers for dividing electoral divisions into
polling districts from time to time and as often as
they think fit and also to alter polling districts.
This Council petitioned in favour of the Bill, which like other Bills