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SECTION E
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION
Staff—Inspectorial.
The establishment of Public Health Inspectors consists of the
Senior Public Health Inspector, a Deputy Senior Public Health
Inspector, ten District Inspectors, two Food and Drugs Inspectors
and one Woman Inspector. During the year a further four Inspectors
resigned, and for some time the Inspectorial staff consisted of
the Senior and Deputy Senior Public Health Inspectors, three
District Inspectors, one Food and Drugs Inspector and one Woman
Inspector. An additional Inspector commenced duties on the 30th
November, 1959.
One of the District Inspectors also acts as Inspector in Charge
of Rodent Control Operations.
It is a matter of grave concern to me that, through the prolonged
shortage of Public Health Inspectors, I am not able properly
to ensure that the statutory duties laid on the Health Department are
being carried out. Many types of routine inspections are not able
to be done and the additional duties imposed on the Department by
the introduction of Smoke Control areas under the Clean Air Act,
1956, made the position even more acute in 1959.
Exhumation and Re-Interment of Bodies.
During the year three licences were granted by the Secretary of
State for the exhumation and removal of three bodies from graves
in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Harrow Road.
Each of these cases was attended by the local District Inspector
and it was possible to certify that each removal had been carried
out in a proper manner.
Increase of Rent and Mortgage Restrictions Acts, 1920/1931.
Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954.
Rent Act, 1957.