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sanitary condition is becoming an intolerable financial burden
upon owners.
At the request of the London County Council, a discussion
took place in November at officer level on the projected resumption
of slum clearance operations in the Borough and the action
to be taken. The London County Council asked, in the first
place, for information concerning areas requiring urgent attention
and for the preparation of a map indicating areas already
being dealt with and areas which are in a condition to be dealt
with immediately or in the near future.
It was pointed out that it would be open to the Borough
Council to recommence slum clearance operations concurrently
with the steps which the County Council proposed to take, and
it was suggested that, as before the war, this Authority should
deal with small areas, leaving the County Council to undertake
the larger areas of more than 10 houses.
On the question of rehousing persons displaced by slum
clearance operations, the London County Council stated that
approximately 25 percent. of the dwellings built by them would
be available to Borough Councils for this purpose, and such quota
could not be increased.
In the early part of the year, I submitted a report to the
Public Health Committee, on the Disposal of Fluorescent Lamp
Tubes, with the object of warning the public of the possible
danger arising from tubes which might contain beryllium compounds
and drawing attention to the precautions which should
be taken in the disposal of such tubes. (A copy of this report
appears in the Appendix.) A memorandum was also issued
to the Council's dust and salvage collectors, setting out the
precautions to be taken in dealing with any disused tubes they
may collect in the course of their duties and arrangements were
made for the proper disposal of such tubes at the Council's
Depots.
On 1st October, 1949, new registation came into operation in
relation to milk, comprising the Food and Drugs (Milk and Dairies)
Act, 1944 (Appointed Day) Order, 1949, the Milk (Special
Designations) Act, 1949, the Milk and Dairies Regulations,
1949, the Milk (Special Designations) (Raw Milk) Regulations,
1949 and the Milk (Special Designations) (Pasteurised and Sterilised,
Milk) Regulations, 1949. Under the last-named Regulations,
Food and Drug Authorities were made responsible for
licensing, pasteurising and sterilising establishments within their
areas and conditions were laid down concerning milk to which
the special description "pasteurised" or "sterilised" is applied;
fees for licences were dispensed with. During the year 246
applications were received for licences by sellers of pasteurised
and/or sterilised milk.