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Number of Mitcham cases dealt with in 1956 38
Number of children affected 72
Number of visits paid 165
National Assistance Act, 1948: Section 47
National Assistance (Amendment) Act, 1951
Removal to Suitable Premises of Persons in Need of Care and
Attention
There were three cases that appeared to fall into this category,
but two agreed to enter voluntarily a hospital for the chronic sick
and only in one case had court action to be taken.
In this last case, as there was no one to give him care and attention,
the patient had to go to a hospital for the chronic sick.
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 five licensed caravan yards, each with a stand pipe,
supplying altogether a total of 17 caravans.
The water has been of a consistendy high standard of purity
and there is no record of any case of infectious disease being
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.