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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 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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HOME WORK
| Lists received:- | |
| Twice in the year | |
| Number of Outworkers | — |
| Once in the year | 1 |
| Number of Outworkers | 1 |
| Number of Outworkers' Premises on register | 36 |
| Number of addresses received from other Councils | 14 |
| Number of addresses forwarded to other Councils | — |
| Notices served on occupiers as to keeping or sending | — |
| Prosecutions - failing to keep Outworkers' Lists | — |
| Prosecutions - failing to furnish lists | — |
| Inspections of Outworkers' Promises | 9 |
| Number of unwholesome premises | — |
| Notices served to remedy | — |
OTHER MATTERS
| Underground Bakehouses in use at the end of the year | 3 | |
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspector af Factories:- | ||
| Failure to affix Abstracts of Act | Nil | |
| Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remedial under tho Publio Health Acts. | Notified by H.M, Inspector | Nil |
| 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 | 634 | |
| Housing | Act, 1936.- Part IV - Overcrowding:- | |
| (a) (1) | Number of dwellings overcrowded at the end | 13 |
| (2) | Number of families dewlling therein | 21 |
| (3) | Number of persons dwelling therein | 111 |
| (b) | Number of new casus of overcrowding reported | 4 |
| (c) (1) | Number of cases of overcrowding relieved | 10 |
| (2) | Number of persons concerned in such cases | 82½ |
| (d) | Particulars of any cases in which dwellinghouses have again become overcrowded after the local authority have taken steps for the abatement of overcrowding | Nil |
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:-
| Pasteuriser's Licence | 1 |
| Dealers Licences: | |
| Tuberculin Tested Milk | 7 |
| Accredited Milk | — |
| Pasteurised Milk | 13 |
| Supplementary Licences | 4 |
Bacteriological ,Examination.- Twenty-three samples of milk were
taken for bacteriological examination under the Milk (Special
Designations) Order.
11.