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Wimbledon 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Visits were paid to the Nursery by the Chairman of the
Wimbledon Maternity and Child Welfare Committee and the Medical
Officer of Health as circumstances permitted.
Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1927. Public Health Act, 1956
Part VI.
The Wimbledon Borough Council is responsible for the supervision
of nursing homes in Vimbledon. At the end of the year there were
sixteen registered nursing homes.
Fifty-seven visits of inspection were made.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OP THE AREA.
Sanitary Inspection of District.- The following is a statement showing the number and nature of "inspections made for the year 1939:-
| Reason of Visit. | No. |
|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 319 |
| House Inspections | 5,190 |
| Inspections under Housing Act, 1936 | 362 |
| House to House Inspections | 2,161 |
| Rent Act Inspections | 5 |
| Houses Let in Lodgings Inspections | 73 |
| Inspection of Factories, Workshops, "Work-places and Out-workers' premises | 276 |
| Dairies and Cowsheds Inspections | 63 |
| Inspections under Shops Acts | 727 |
| Application of Tests to Drains | 115 |
| Inspections under Diseases of Animals Acts . | 9 |
| Obtaining Samples of Foods and Drugs | 18 |
| Miscellaneous (including Inspections of food, slaughter-houses, mews, stables, caravans, Petroleum Acts, water supply, piggeries, mosquitoes, etc.) | 1,126 |
| Total | 10,444 |
Notices Served.-one thousand two hundred and seventy-six
preliminary notices or intimations were served during the year.
It was found necessary to serve three hundred Statutory
Notices.
House Inspection.- The following table p;ives a summary of the nuisances abated and the sanitar improvements carried out, together with the defects remedied, as a result of house-to-house inspection under the supervision of the Sanitary Inspectors:-
| Accumulations removed | 27 |
| Cisterns provide | 9 |
| Cisterns repaired, cleansed or covered | 13 |
| Drains, new, provided | 45 |
| Drainage systems made water-tight by patent process | 6 |
| Drains, repaired or altered | 45 |
| Drains, stoppages removed | 43 |
| Dustbins provided | 153 |
| Flushing cisterns, new, provided | 46 |
| Flushing cisterns repaired | 44 |
| Manure receptacles provided | 2 |
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