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Wimbledon 1943

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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HOME WORK.
Lists received:-
Twice in the year -
Number of Outworkers -
Once in the year -
Number of outworkers -
Number of Outworkers' Premises on register 32
Number of addresses received from other Councils17
Number of addresses forwarded to other Councils 3
Notices served on occupiers as to keeping or sending
lists -
Prosecutions - failing to keep Outworkers' Lists
Prosecutions - failing to furnish lists -
Inspections of Outworkers' Premises 12
Number of unwholesome premises -
Notices served to remedy -
OTHER METTERS.
Underground Bakehouses in use at the end of the year3
Matters notified to K.M.Inspector of Factories:-
Failure to affix Abstracts of Act Nil
Action taken in matters Notified by H..M
referred by H.K. Inspector Inspector Nil
as remedial under the Reports of action
Public Health Acts taken sent to
H.M. Inspector Nil
HOUSING.
Number of dwelling-houses inspected and recorded under
the Housing Consolidated Regulations, 1925 and 1932-
Number of inspections made for the purpose 880
Housing Act, 1936 - Part IV - Overcrowding:-
(a) (1) Number of dwellings overcrowded at the end
of the year 11
(2) Number of families dwelling therein 19
(3) Number of persons dwelling therein 85½
(b) Number of new cases of overcrowding reported
during the year 4
(c) (1) Number of cases of overcrowding relieved during
the year 7
(2) Number of persons concerned in such cases 47½
(d) Particulars of any cases in which dwellinghouses
have again become overcrowded after the local
authority have taken steps for the abatement
of overcrowding Nil
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk 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 a3 follows:-
Pasteuriser's Licence 1
Dealers Licences:
Tuberculin Tested Milk10
Accredited Mil-
Pasteurised Milk 15
Supplementary Licences 4
Bacteriologioal Examination. - Twenty-nine samples of milk were
taken" for "bacteriological examination under the Milk (Special Designa¬'
tions) Order,
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