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Number of visits to stables and yards 34
Number of visits to market gardens, etc. 22
Number of visits to urinals . 114
Number of visits to piggeries 27
Number of visits re infectious diseases 143
Number of visits to streams 51
Number of visits re rats 167
Number of visits re smoke abatement 37
Number of complaints received and investigated 509
Number of informal notices served 555
Number of statutory notices served 33
Number of interviews re nuisances, etc. 1,009
Number of drain tests applied 216
Number of rooms disinfected 145
Number of lots of bedding and clothing disinfected 113
Number of library books disinfected 380
F. H. LENNARD, m.r.san.i., a.m.i.s.e., m.s.i.a.,
Senior Sanitary Inspector.
SHOPS AND OFFICES.
Two hundred and eighty-eight inspections were made during 1948 and
in 12 cases action was necessary in regard to sanitary defects.
CAMPING SITES.
There are no camping sites within the Borough.
SWIMMING BATH.
The Corporation again rented from the London County Council (for
the 1948 Summer season) the open-air swimming bath situated in the
grounds of the Royal Female Orphanage.
The supervision and arrangement of sessions were under the control
of the Public Health Department. Facilities were given to schools and
youth organisations, and residents using the bath were enrolled in a
Borough Swimming Club, under the control of a Committee consisting
of officers and members of the Corporation and representatives of outside
organisations.
During the season, which covered a period of 18 weeks, the following
attendances were recorded :—
Youth organisations 4,822
Schoolchildren 1,793
Borough Swimming Club :
Adults 3,004
Children 3,859
Total 13,478
ERADICATION OF BED BUGS.
During the year bed bugs were found to exist in 9 houses. Appropriate
remedial measures were taken.
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