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Harrow 1911

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow-on-the-Hill]

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The owners could not see their way to carry out
the work of providing damp courses and concreting the
sites, and the Council agreed that this work be omitted
from their requirements.
Numbers 19 and 21, Middle Road, were dealt with
under the Housing and Town Planning Act, which
resulted in the premises being thoroughly overhauled
and put in a habitable condition.
A very large amount of the Inspector's time was
taken up in re-inspecting and superintending the above
work with the result that no further house to house
inspection could be done during the year, but I hope in
the near future to submit lists of houses the early inspection
of which I think to be desirable.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
The Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Home
Workers' premises have been periodically inspected
and the number of inspections made and sanitary defects
found to exist are shown in Table 6.
On the whole the Factories and Workshops are in
a satisfactory condition.
To obtain the list of outworkers it was necessary
to serve notices on the occupiers of workshops, etc.
MEDICAL INSPECTION OF CHILDREN IN THE
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN HARROW.
The County Medical Office of Health reports as
follows:-
"Three routine inspections of each school in the"
"area were made during 1911."

"Five hundred and fifty-eight children were ex- " "amined during the year."

Age Group.Boys.Girls.
5 years10885Routine Inspections.
7 and 8 years5457
13 and 14 years109116 )
1415*Various.
285273

*Children presented for some special reason for medical inspection, and not
coming within the groups required for routine inspection.