Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 35
Number of addresses received from other Councils 24
Number of addresses forwarded to other Councils 5
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 48
Number of unwholesome premises -
Notices served to remedy -
OTHER MATTERS.
Underground Bakehouses in use at the end of the year 3
letters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:-
Eailure to affix Abstracts of Act Nil
Action taken in matters
referred by H.M. Inspector
as remedial under the
Public Health Acts
Notified .by H.M.
Inspector Nil
Reports of action
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 723
Housing Act, 1936 - Part IV - Overcrowding:-
(a) (1) Number of dwellings overcrowded at the end
of the year 9
(2) Number of families dwelling therein 17
(3) Number of persons dwelling therein 78
(b) Number of new cases of overcrowding reported
during the year -
(c) (1) Number of cases of overcrowding relieved during
the year 2
(2) Number of persons concerned in such cases 7½
(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
water SUPPLY.
The Metropolitan Water Board is responsible for the water
supply of the Borough. The supply in 1944 was satisfactory, both
in quality and quantity.
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 as follows:-
Pasteuriser's Licence 1
Dealers' Licences:-
.. . Tuberculin Tested Milk 9
Accredited Milk -
Pasteurised Milk 12
Supplementary Licences 12
Bacteriological Examination. - Twenty-nine samples of milk were
taken for bacteriological examination under the Milk (Special Designations)
Order.
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