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Croydon 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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SHOP ACTS
The Shop Acts, 1934, contains provisions for dealing with the health
and coiafort of persons employed and also regarding ventilation, temperature
sanitary conveniences, washing facilities and the facilitios for taking
meals in shops.
The Shops (Sunday Trading Restriction) Act, 1936, restricts the sale
of certain goods on Sunday, deals with the hours which the assistants have
to work and introduces now requirements.
The Retail Meat Dealers' Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1936, prohibits
the sale of meat en Sundays, with certain exceptions.
The Young Persons Employment Act, 1938 came into force during the
year.
All the matters mentioned above are an advance on previous legislation,
and have entailed a considerable amount of extra work on the staff in order
to see that the requirements wore carried out.
1956 inspections were made and a number of infringements were found
as sot out.
COMMON LODGING HOUSES
1. Municipal Lodging House.
The Municipal Lodging House (built by the Corporation owing to
displacement of private common lodging houses due to the improvement
scheme) is situate at Pitlake, and contains 101 cubicle beds for
nightly letting to lodgers. In addition there are three cubicles
allotted to members of the Municipal Lodging House staff, making a total
of 104 cubicles on the premises. The charge per night to lodgers is
Is., tho cost of a weekly ticket is 6s., for seven nights.
The recoipts and expenditure for the last ten years arc as follows:-
| Receipts | Expenditure. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | £1344 | 10 | 9d. | £.1477 | 3.3 | 6d. | |
| 1931 | 1366 | 6 | 4 | 1711 | 19 | 6 | |
| 1932 | 1517 | 8 | 4 | 1347 | 5 | 5 | |
| 1933 | 1437 | 2 | 6 | lb 44 | 7 | 10 | |
| 1934 | 1439 | 16 | 1 | 1695 | 8 | 9 | |
| 1935 | 1468 | 11 | 5 | 1430 | 14 | 9 | |
| 1936 | 1446 | 0 | 2 | 1381 | 19 | 2 | |
| 1937 | 1378 | 14 | 8 | 1348 | 7 | ||
| 1938 | 1253 | 2 | 0 | 1580 | 6 | ||
| 1939 | 1284 | 3 | 4 | 1269 | 0 | 4 | |
2. Private Common Lodging Houses,
There are 2 common lodging houses on tho register.
During 1939 43 day and 3 night inspections were made.
Notices were served for the conditions and defects found.
The following table gives tho situation of and the accommodation in
the common lodging hcur.es:-
Premises. No.of rooms. Accommodation.
11 and 12, Princess Road 10 38 men and women.
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