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The number of overcrowded dwellings on the Register of Overcrowding at the end o. 1948 (425) shows a reduction
on the figure for 1947 (504). This is due in the main to a survey undertaken during the year when it was ascerta ned
that 220 families had secured alternative accommodation privately or that the overcrowding had been abated by other
means.
Of the cases of overcrowding relieved during the year :—
32 were provided with accommodation by the Borough Council,
117 were rehoused by the London County Council,
175 secured accommodation privately, and
45 were relieved by a natural reduction in the size of the family or on obtaining additional
accommodation.
HOUSING ACCOMMODATION : PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT.—Six families recommended for preferential
consideration in the allocation of accommodation on medical grounds were rehoused by the Borough Council and
fifteen by the London County Council.
FUMIGATION.—During the year Associated Fumigators, Limited, under an agreement with the Council, removed
and treated the furniture etc. of forty-nine families with hydrogen cyanide gas. The cost of the work was £210.
NEW ACCOMMODATION.—-The forty-eight flats at Fleming Court were completed during the year, and families
selected from the Council's waiting list were housed therein.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.—With the coming into operation of the National Health Service Act, 1946,
the Maternity and Child Welfare functions of the Council passed to the London County Council on the 5th July, 1948,
and the following summary relates to the period prior to that date.
HEALTH VISITING.—Home visits paid by the Health Visitors :—
First visits to children under 1 year 1,076
Revisits 6,891
7,967
Visits to children aged 1-5 years 7,922
First visits to expectant mothers 1,018
Revisits 942
1,960
Visits re Sickness (including Puerperal Fever, Puerperal Pyrexia, Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Infantile
Diarrhoea) 205
Miscellaneous (including ineffective calls) 4,997
5,202
INFANT CONSULTATIONS.
No. of children attending 2,214
No. of attendances 17,209
ANTE-AND POST-NATAL CLINICS.
No. of expectant or recently confined mothers attending 943
No. of attendances 4,713
FOOT CLINIC. Adults Children.
No. of patients attending 19 3
No. of attendances 92 13