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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 1961 52
Number of children affected 156
Number of visits paid 253
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 no cases in this category.
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 34 caravans.
The standard of purity of the water was raised to an even higher
level and the Board's latest report shews the highest degree of
bacteriological purity ever reached. There is no record in the Borough
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