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Number of visits to food premises 331
Number of visits to stables and yards 62
Number of visits to market gardens, etc 8
Number of visits to fried fish shops 9
Number of visits to urinals 31
Number of visits to piggeries 26
Number of visits re infectious diseases 141
Number of visits to streams 59
Number of visits re rats 247
Number of visits re smoke abatement 32
Number of complaints received and investigated 467
Number of informal notices served 632
Number of statutory notices served 27
Number of interviews re nuisances, etc. 624
Number of rooms disinfected 106
Number of lots of bedding and clothing disinfected 142
Number of library books disinfected 206
Number of visits to Public Air-Raid Shelters 114
F. H. LENNARD,
m.r.san.i., a.m.i.s.e., m.s.i.a.,
Senior Sanitary Inspector.
SHOPS AND OFFICES.
One hundred and thirty-seven inspections were made during 1945
and in 1 case action was necessary in regard to sanitary defects.
CAMPINC SITES.
There are no camping sites within the Borough.
SWIMMING BATH.
There is one open-air swimming bath in the Borough situated in
the grounds of the Royal Female Orphanage, Beddington. As in previous
years, the Council were able to satisfy, at least in part, the large
demand for swimming facilities from young people and residents of
the Borough generally. The London County Council were approached
and, for an agreed rental, consented to allow the Beddington and
Wallington Corporation to meet the demand by granting generous
sessions at the swimming bath. The usual facilities offered to schools
and youth organisations were eagerly accepted, and the three midweek
sessions and full Sunday facilities allocated to the Borough
Swimming Club were enjoyed to the full. Residents using the bath
were enrolled in a Borough Swimming Club under the control of
Officers of the Corporation.
The following attendances were recorded during the season, which
lasted for 22 weeks: —
40