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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wimbledon 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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HOME WORK.
| Lists received:- | |
| Twice in tho yoar | — |
| Number of Outworkers | — |
| Onco in tho year | 1 |
| Number of Outworkers | 1 |
| Number of Outworkers' Premises on register | 40 |
| Number of addresses roceived fjom other Councils | 10 |
| Number of addresses forwanrdod to other Councils | — |
| Notices served on occupiers as to keeping or sending lists | — |
| Prosecutions - failing to kocp Outworkers' Lists | — |
| Prosecutions - failing to oirnish lists | — |
| Inspections of Outworkers' Premises | 4 |
| Number of unwholesomo promises | — |
| Notices sorved to remedy | — |
OTHER MATTERS.
| Underground Bakehouses in use at the end of the year | 3 | |
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:- Failure to affix Abstracts of Act | Nil | |
| Action taken in matters referred by H.M. | Notified by H.M. Inspector | Nil |
| Inspector as remedial under the Public Health Acts. ) | Reports of action taken sent to H.M. Inspector | Nil |
HOUSING.
| Number of dwelling-houses inspected and recorded under the Housing Consolidated Regulations, 1925 and 1932 | — |
| Number of inspections made for the purpose | — |
| Housing Act, 1936.- Part IV. - Overcrowding:- | |
| (a) (l) Number of dwellings overcrowded at the end of the year | 18 |
| (2) Number of families dwelling therein | 30 |
| (3) Number of persons dwelling therein | 125½ |
| (b) Number of new cases of overcrowding reported during the yoar | — |
| (c) (1) Number of cases of overcrowding relieved during tho year | 4 |
| (2) Number of persons concerned in such cases | 25½ |
| (d) Particulars of any oases in which dwellinghouses have again become ovorcrowded after tho local authority have taken steps for the abatement of | Nil |
AIR RAID SHELTERS.
Four hundred and ninety-throe visits wore paid to air raid shelters
in the Borough. Thirty-four of these were carried out by the Medical
Officer of Health or his Deputy, three hundred and fifty-three by the
Sanitary Inspectors, and one hundred and six by the Health Visitors. In
fifty-one instances defects due to inadequate lighting or ventilation,
dampness, uncleanliness, or sanitary accommodation were reported to the
A.R.P. Department for attention.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.- Practically all the milk for retail sale is.brought
into the area from other districts.
The number of licences granted under the Milk (Special Designations)
Order, 1936, was as follows:- .
11.