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20.
VISITS AM) INSPECTIONS (Continued)
Internal plaster repairs 56
Sash cords renewed 48
Dustbins provided 21
Aooumulations removed 24.
Ponds and ditches in the Borough where mosquito breeding was likely were
sprayed with insecticide twice during the year and larger areas where mosquitoes
were found to be breeding but spraying was impraotioable, were treated with
a fog generating apparatus, with satisfactory results.
Disinfestation of dust chutes at the Counoil's blocks of flats was
carried out by means of the high pressure fogging apparatus whioh was most
effeotive: all sohool canteens were similarly treated.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
There were no legal proceedings in 1964.
PETROLEUM LICENCES
Petroleum (Regulations) Acts, 1928 and 1936. and Petroleum (Mixtures)
Order. 1929.Ninety-eight licences to store petroleum spirit and/or petroleum
mixtures were issued for a total of 293,365 gallons (inclusive of cellulose
solutions).
Petroleum (Carbide of Calcium) Order. 1929- Two licenoes were issued
for the storage of 1,224 1bs. of carbide of calcium.
HOUSING STATISTICS
Total Number of Inhabited Dwellings- 20,676
Housing properties now owned by the Council amount to 4,666, including
326 temporary dwellings.
During the year 214 families were rehoused from the waiting list, 168
in Mitcham, 40 by nomination to the Primley and Camberley U.D.C. under the
Town Expansion Scheme, and 6 in New Towns under the Industrial Selection Scheme.
Seven families were rehoused from dwellings in Slum Clearance areas.
The number of new registrations continued to increase and at the end of the
year the housing register stood at 1,438, representing a net increase of 125
over the previous year.