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CLOSET ACCOMMODATION
The whole of the district is on the water carriage system, the
houses being drained to the public sewer, then treated at the works
of the Wandle Valley joint Sewerage Board, situated in Mitcham.
PUBLIC CLEANSING
A weekly collection of house refuse is carried out by direct labour.
Ten refuse collection vehicles are in use.
ERADICATION OF BED BUGS
Number of Council houses found infested during the year, 15
Number of other houses found infested during the year, 10.
Number of requisitioned, etc., houses found infested during the
year, 4.
Total number of houses disinfested during the year, 29.
Methods employed: —
29 houses treated with insecticide spray.
Number of houses disinfested of beetles, 50.
Number of houses disinfested of other insects, 7.
SCHOOLS
The supervision of the public elementary schools is under the
control of the Education Department of the Surrey County Council.
The sanitary fittings, etc., however, are inspected periodically
by the public health inspector. All schools have a constant supply of
water from the mains of the Metropolitan Water Board.
Medical Inspection.—The medical inspection of school children
is carried out by the School Health Service of the Surrey County
Council.
Closure of Shools.—No school has been closed by the local
authority during the year by reason of infectious disease, although at
one time in the autumn the world-wide spread of "Asian Flu " caused
up to 50 per cent. of the children in some schools to be absent.
Infectious Diseases.—Scholars in contact with cases of certain
infectious diseases are excluded from school, the period of the