[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth].

  • Heston and Isleworth (England). Borough Council.
Date:
[1963?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SMOKE CONTROL AREAS No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 Council resolution 25.11,58 7-12,59 27.6.61 28.11.61 27.3 62 25.9.62 Ministry enquiry 7. 4.59 14 4 60 - - - - Ministry confirmation 25. 6.59 15.8.60 31.10.61 23.3.62 15.6.62 27.12.62 Date of operation 1.10.60 1 61 1 10.62 1.10.62 1.10,63 1.10.63 Acres 186 130 335 200 100 365 Total dwellings 1,602 1,060 804 1,141 880 987 Council houses 418 5 682 182 - 379 Estimated number of dwellings ranking for grant 1,370 911 739 979 773 766 Number of dwellings where estimates of cost of conversion or adaptation were approved 1,147 561 644 415 22 Number of claims for grant checked and approved for payment 1,062 517 6 224 8 Gross cost to 31.12.62 Nature of works £14,336 £8,700 £137 £5,654 £281 carried out:- (a) new appliances 974 632 7 358 13 - (b) adaptation of existing applianc es 445 200 2 42 4 _ (c) gas or electric kindling provided 757 399 9 262 12 - TENTS, VANS AND CARAVANS. There are six sites in the Borough which have been used as caravan sites for many years. Some are occupied wholly or in part by persons who use caravans for business in connection with a travelling circus, fair or stall. Eight other sites are occupied by one or more caravans. During the year, the in spectors made 574 visits of inspection because of the occupation of land by caravans. Trespass by caravans on road verges and unfenced land continues especially on the western outskirts of the Borough. The vagrant type who occupy these caravans deposit domestic refuse, litter of all kinds, waste water and faecal matter in the neighbourhood of the sites occupied. Much time and effort have been given in attempts to clear them from their usual camping sites, but only too often within 24 hours they are back again. Under the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act, I960, two site licences were issued for a limited period. COMMON LODGING HOUSES. There is no common lodging house in the Borough. CANAL BOATS. The Public Health Inspectors continued their duties as canal boat inspectors, and made 11 inspections during the year. FACTORIES, WORK-PLACES, ETC. The Factories Act placed on the Council certain duties in regard to (a) outworkers; (b) employment of persons in unwholesome premises; (c) basement bakehouses; (d) provision of sanitary conveniences in all factories, and (e) cleanliness, over-crowding, ventilation and drainage of floors in the case of factories in which mechanical power is not used. A summary of the work done is given below and in Table IX- - Inspection of (a) Factories - mechanical power 365 (b) Factories - non-mechanical power 19 (c) Other premises 158 (d) Outworkers' premises 88 Defects remedied 11 17