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carries out the combined duties of District Health Visitor and
School Health Visitor.
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.
Numbers of Mitcham cases dealt with in 1952 19
Number of children affected 29
Number of visits paid 107
National Assistance Act, 1948: Section 47.
Removal to Suitable Premises of Persons in Need of Care and
Attention.
There were no cases during the yenr that needed court
action. Two cases which seemed likely to require such action
eventually went, voluntarily, to a hospital for the chronic sick
and to a welfare institution.
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 21 caravans.