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Home Help Service
The Home Help Service, which is under the control of the
Surrey County Council, has proved most successful.
Applications for assistance are made to the Divisional
Medical Officer at Mitcham Court.
National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to
Children
The Society does very valuable work in the Borough and
there is very close co-operation between the officials of the Public
Health Department and the officers of the Society.
Number of Mitcham cases dealt with in 1949 49
Number of children affected 81
Number of visits paid 114
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. A few factories have an additional supply
from deep wells.
There are six licensed caravan yards, each with a stand pipe,
supplying altogether a total of 16 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 houses in the Borough have no supply
of drinking water direct from the main, but are supplied from a
tank in the roof. Provided the tank is properly covered and is
cleansed regularly, it provides a satisfactory supply.
RIVERS AND STREAMS
Visits have been paid to all works suspected of discharging
effluent into surface water sewers.