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Vermin Control
Vermin indicative of lack of cleanliness such as infestation by bugs,
fleas and lice is now relatively rare. Most of the work done on premises
for insect pests is in respect of wasps nests as is indicated by the details
given below.
Persons.
The Council's Cleansing Station in Rochester Road was established
late in 1941 to deal with the greatly increased number of cases of personal
infestation associated with war conditions which rendered the exercise of
adequate personal hygiene very difficult. In 1942, the first full year of the
Cleansing Station's operation, no fewer than 973 individuals were treated
there. With the return of peace time conditions the situation rapidly
improved until now it is only on rare occasions that the services of the
Cleansing Station have to be brought into use.
In 1962, two families involving nine persons made twenty-seven
attendances at the Cleansing Station. Six were cases of pediculosis and three
scabies. Six were school children.

Clean Air Act, 1956
Further progress was made in the Council's Scheme drawn up in 1960
to convert the whole district into one complete smokeless zone.
The first zone involving 1,440 premises and 139 acres was completed
in October 1961 when the first Smoke Control Order became operative.
The second zone involving 2,089 premises and 235 acres was completed
by 31st December, 1962.
The third zone involving 2,642 premises and 262 acres, work on which
commenced in 1961, was continued during 1962 and the operative date for
the Order has been fixed by the Minister as 1st October, 1963.
In march of 1962 the Council agreed the limits of the fourth area to
be undertaken which is one bounded on the north by the centre of Thornton
Road and by a line along the rear of the houses on the north side of Westminster
Road, on the west by the boundary with the Borough of Sutton &
Cheam as far south as a point opposite the junction of Duke of Edinburgh
Road and Westminster Road, and by a line along the rear of the houses
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