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43
Offensive accumulations removed 56
Urinals cleansed or repaired 3
Piggeries repaired or improved 8
Houses or parts disinfected and cleansed 573
Smoke nuisances abated 6
Houses at which drains were reconstructed or
new provided 3
Drains repaired, cleansed, trapped or ventilated 155
Considerable attention has been given to temporary dwellings.
There are 18 caravan yards in the district, accommodating 60
caravans and 174 persons, a reduction of 77 on last year's figures.
Action under the Surrey County Council Act, 1932, resulted in an
appreciable reduction in the number of caravans in three yards;
another solitary caravan was removed from a site at Lonesome.
An improvement was made in a Fountain Road yard by the erection
of an additional watercloset and the yard being paved and drained.
Eight caravans were evicted from the Lewis Road yard following
High Court proceedings. In all 106 visits were paid to these yards.
Three families occupying insanitary sheds were also removed.
Only one application under the Rents Restriction Act was
applied for and granted.
The byelaws relating to houses let in lodgings were applied in
three instances to secure to sub-tenants proper domestic services.
One hundred and one smoke observations on factory chimneys
were made and six nuisances were abated.
Complaints regarding the emission of smells from two fish
frying establishments were investigated and the nuisances abated
by extending the flues well above the roofs.
Disinfection and Disinfestation.—Disinfection has been carried
out at 573 houses after removal of cases of infectious disease or
treatment at home, also class rooms at two schools. Infected
bedding and clothing is removed to the Wandle Valley Isolation
Hospital for disinfection by steam. One hundred and nine bug
infested rooms were fumigated or sprayed with insecticide. Notices
were served on occupiers in 37 cases. Ponds and ditches were
sprayed with paraffin, as in previous years, to combat the mosquito