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The Committee resolved that the report be circulated to the
autonomous Maternity and Child Welfare Authorities for their
observations.
Unfortunately the flying bomb attacks prevented the meeting
of the conference taking place before the end of the year.
Care op Premature Infants
Premature infants requiring hospital treatment are admitted
to the County Hospital.
For cases remaining in their own homes special draught-proof
cots heated by hot water bottles, blankets, clothes, special feeding
bottles, etc., may be borrowed free of cost at the request of the
doctor or midwife in charge of the case.
Home helps are available when necessary.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
WATER SUPPLY
Except for eight houses in Goat Road, supplied by the
Sutton Water Company, the whole of Mitcham is supplied by
the Metropolitan Water Board.
Four houses in the Borough have no separate water supply,
and share a stand pipe situated at the rear of the houses. There
are in addition ten licensed caravan yards, each containing a
stand pipe and supplying a total of 26 caravans.
The water has been of a consistently high standard of purity
and no case of infectious disease has been transmitted by water.
A large number of the houses in the Borough have no supply
of drinking water direct from the main, but are supplied from a
tank in the roof. Provided this tank is properly covered and is
cleansed regularly, it provides a satisfactory supply, but frequently
the covers are left off and the tanks become contaminated
with dead birds, mice, etc., drowned whilst obtaining water. All
the more modern houses are, however, supplied with one tap for
drinking purposes direct from the main supply.