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Housing Act, 1936.- Part IV.- Over crowding:
(a) (1) Number of dwellings overcrowded at the
end of the year 34
(2) Number of families dwelling therein 57
(3) Number of persons dwelling therein 305
(b) Number of new cases of overcrowding
reported during the year 2
(c) (1) Number of cases of overcrowding
relieved during the year 51
(2) Number of persons concerned in such
cases 421
(d) Particulars of any cases in which dwelling
houses have again become overcrowded
after the local authority have
taken steps for the abatement of
overcrowding Nil
INSERTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Mile Supply.- Practically all the milk for retail sale is
brought into the area from other districts.
The number of licences granted under the Milk (Special
Designations) Order, 1936, was as follows:-
Pasteuriser's Licence 1
Dealers Licences:
Tuberculin Tested Milk 9
Accredited Milk
Pasteurised Milk16
Supplementary Licences 9
Bacteriological lamination.- Thirty samples of milk were
taken for bacterio logical" examination under the Milk (Special
Designations) Order.
Food and Drugs Act, 1958.
The Council became the Local Authority under this Act on
1st October, 1939.
Four samples were taken up to the end of the year.
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIONS AND OTHER DISEASES.
During 1939, one hundred and eighty-seven cases of infectious
disease were notified. These were twenty-one fewer than in 1938.
For several years the incidence of notifiable infectious disease in
Wimbledon has been low.
Scarlet Fever.- Fifty-four cases of scarlet fever were notified,
one less than"in 1938. The attack rate was 0.96 per thousand of
the population.
Forty-three, or 79.63 per cent of the cases were treated in
hospital. There were no deaths from this disease.
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