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All persons taking children for gain have to be registered and
their homes are visited by the Child Protection Visitors. Children
up to nine years of age come under this Act, but the nurses of course
pay more visits to children under School age. 292 visits were paid
to Foster Children during 1938.
Schools taking in Boarders under 9 years of age also come
under this Act and are subject to inspection unless specially exempted.
Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1927.
The Surrey County Council are the supervising Authority for
Registration of these Homes. After Registration is completed the
delegation of all powers is given to the local Council and inspections
are carried out by the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough
from time to time. The County Medical Officer consults me with
regard to premises when registration is asked for. The County
Council have issued Bye-laws with regard to Nursing Homes.
The numbers of Homes in the Borough during the year was 6,
viz.:—
General Medical and Maternity Cases 4
General Medical Cases 1
Maternity Cases only 1
Two persons in charge of nursing homes have been warned that
they must strictly comply with the Bye-laws.
SECTION C.
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area.
Water.
The Borough receives its water from two sources (1) from Wells
situated in the area and (2) from the Metropolitan Water Board.
The local wells are of two kinds (1) a deep well in the chalk and (2)
five wells near the river.
The water from these latter wells is chlorinated by an automatic
process. Even before chlorination, analysis shows that the water is a
good one, but after chlorination the analyst's report invariably shows a