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INSTITUTIONAL PROVISION FOR MOTHERS OR CHILDREN.
There are no developments or changes to record.
HEALTH VISITORS—CHILD LIFE PROTECTION—DENTAL AND ORTHOPAEDIC CASES.
There is nothing to record except what is set out elsewhere in the Report.
SUPERVISION AND INSPECTION OF REGISTERED MATERNITY AND OTHER NURSING
HOMES.
This is dealt with in the 9th Annual Report on the Registration of Nursing Homes, page 67.
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION.
List of Local Acts, Adoptive Acts, Bye-laws and local Regulations in force in the District, with
date of adoption.
Local Acts:—
Willesden Local Board Act, 1876. Royal Assent 27.6.1876.
Willesden Local Board Act, 1887. Royal Assent 8.8.1887.
Willesden Sewerage Act, 1896. Royal Assent 14.8.1896.
*Willesden Urban District Council Act, 1903. Royal Assent 11.8.1903.
Adoptive Acts:—
*Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, Part III. Adopted 11.11.1890.
*Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, Parts II., IV., and X. Adopted 24.1.1911.
Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, Part VI. Adopted 1925.
*Public Health Act, 1925.
Burial Acts, 1852-1900.
Public Libraries Acts, 1892-1901. Adopted 19.2.1891.
Bye-laws:—
*Common Lodging Houses (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 80). Revised and adopted 10.1.35.
*Houses Let in Lodgings (Housing Act, 1936, s. 6). Allowed 1.9.1938.
*Slaughter Houses (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 169, and Towns Improvement Clauses
Act, 1847, s. 128). Revised and adopted 10.1.35.
*Prevention of Nuisances (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 44). Revised and adopted 10.1.35.
New Streets and Buildings (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 157, and Public Health Acts
Amendment Act, 1890, s. 23). Revised and adopted 1.5.28. Amended and allowed
22.5.1930.
New Sewers (Willesden Local Board Act, 1887). Adopted 9.10.1888.
Pleasure Grounds (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 164). Adopted 28.1.1896.
*Rag and Bone Dealer (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 113). Revised and adopted 10.1.35.
*For the Regulation of Black Smoke (Public Health (Smoke Abatement) Act, 1926, s. 2).
Adopted 22.5.30.
Local Regulations:—
Small Holdings and Allotment Act, 1908. Adopted 25.11.1913.
*Relating to underground sleeping rooms. Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909,
s. 17 (7). Adopted 23.9.1913, and amended to conform with Section 18, Housing
Act, 1925.
* These are administered wholly or partly by the Health Committee.
The unstarred are administered by other Committees of the Council.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
Water.—The water supply of Willesden is derived from the mains of the Metropolitan Water
Board and the Colne Valley Water Company. The service is constant and the water of excellent
quality.
Rivers and Streams.—The River Brent forms the Northern and Western boundary of the
district. The Mitchell Brook, a tributary of the Brent, is a small stream running in a westward
direction through the district. A large sheet of water known as the Welsh Harp is formed at the
extreme northern boundary by the damming up of the Brent, thus forming a reservoir about a mile
in length and about a quarter of a mile in width, or 160 acres in extent. The boundary line between
the Boroughs of Willesden and Wembley passes through the length of this reservoir, leaving an area
of about 68 acres of it in Willesden.
In the Autumn it was discovered that a small sewer was discharging in the Welsh Harp Reservoir.
The source of this pollution was traced and appropriate remedial measures taken.
Closet Accommodation.—All houses are supplied with closets on the water carriage system.
Each house has at least one water closet, and in the better class tenement house there is
generally a water closet provided on each floor.
Public Cleansing.—Since the year 1919-20, the Health Department has not been responsible
for the removal and disposal of house refuse, that work having been taken over by the Engineer's
Department.
Quite 99 per cent. of the houses in the district are provided with movable receptacles. Fixed
receptacles in the older houses are rapidly decreasing in number, and during the next few years should
entirely disappear.
The Borough Engineer's Department collect refuse from all premises at least once weekly.