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WATER SUPPLY
Metropolitan Water Board notices of withdrawal - 11.
SHOPS ACT. 1934.
Shops inspected 711
Inspections made 746
Notices served 2
FACTORIES AND WORKPLACES
202 defects under the Public Health Acts were found.
All were remedied without legal proceedings.
Visits to Outworkers' premises other than factories 56
Workrooms measured 94
Visits of enquiry re employment of:- Women 28
Outworkers 17
NUISANCE FROM PIGEONS
Complaints 18. Pigeons destroyed 478.
PHYSICALLY INCAPACITATED PERSONS REMOVED TO INSTITUTIONS - 27
The statutory powers to effect removal did not require to
be brought into operation.
DISINFECTION.
Rooms 481. Articles 34,083. Articles washed 3,150.
Articles destroyed 40. Books disinfected 48. Vehicles 49.
Business premises 23.
CLEANSING OF PERSONS (Head lice, Body lice, Scabies).
Children 327- Adults 341. - Total 668.
ERADICATION OF BED BUGS
Premises found to be infested - Council flats 17; other
houses 556. All premises disinfested. The furniture & effects
of 136 families were disinfested on re-housing.
TREATMENT OF BEDDING FROM CASUALTY DEPOTS, REPORT CENTRES, ETC.
Articles of bedding etc., disinfected,
September to December, 1939 10,788
INSPECTION aND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
Samples purchased for analysis 1,806
Visits to premises 2,209
Notices served 137
Samples found to be adulterated 24
Prosecutions 11
Convictions 4
Fines £13.0.0. Costs £14.14.0.
LEAD IN CIDER
Information was received during the year from one of the
Voluntary General Hospitals of a patient in a ward suffering from
lead poisoning. The only suggestion which could be obtained as to
the source of this lead was that the patient regularly consumed
cider.