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and 11½ ante-natal clinics in 11 premises0. The corresponding figures at
the beginning of the year were 21, 2½ and 9½, and in August 1939, 26,
3½ and 12½. The clinic sessions held in North Harrow were changed
during the year to different premises.
LABORATORY FACILITIES.
This service provided as part of the organisation set up by the
Medical Research Council continued to be most satisfactory.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
Since the merging of the local Fire Brigade in the National Service,
the public health ambulances have been manned by the personnel of
the Civil Defence Ambulance Service.
Approval was given to arrangements being made for the transport
of Harrow residents suffering from infectious diseases from addresses
outside the district to their homes within the district, the charges to
be those that would have been made had removal been effected by the
Council's accident ambulance.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF DISTRICT.
A. Inspection of Houses :
Number inspected under P.H. Acts : (a) Complaint 1,178
(b) Routine 329
Number found defective 671
Revisits 3,105
Routine inspections under the Housing Act
Revisits 142
Surveys under Section 157 of the Housing Act
No. of cases of overcrowding 17
Inspection of houses let in lodgings
No. of foster parents'houses inspected
Inspections of houses for other reasons 63
Total visits paid 4,848
B. Inspection of other premises ; visits and enquiries:
No. of routine visits to premises liable to give rise to
nuisances 648
Further visits paid to these premises 1,050
No. of visits to premises under periodical inspection 585
No. of inspections of cinemas, etc. 12
No. of complaints investigated (excluding those referred
to above under Housing) 554
No. of observations for smoke nuisances