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ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS and CIRCULARS
ISSUED BY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS RELATING TO THE
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES during 1957
Acts of Parliament:
Rent Act, 1957
Housing Act, 1957
Statutory Instruments:
Food Hygiene (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1956.
Clean Air (Appointed Day) Order, 1956.
Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) Regulations, 1956.
Smoke Control Areas (Exempted Fireplaces) Order, 1957.
Colouring matter in Pood Regulations, 1957.
Rent Restrictions Regulations, 1957.
Housing (Prescribed Forms) Regulations, 1957.
Public Analysts Regulations, 1957.
Circulars:
Ministry of Housing and Local Government:
Clean Air Act, 1956. Memoranda;
Miscellaneous Provisions.
Smoke Control Areas.
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food:
Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949-1954 - Approved Oxidising or Preservative
Agents.
Exchequer grants towards the cost of meat inspection. 2/57.
Amendments to Memo 3/MEAT (re cysticercus bovis).
Public Health (Imported Food) Regs. 1937 and 1948. Hungary Official Certificate.
Slaughterhouses - recommended minimum standards.
Ministry of Housing and Local Government;
Improvement Grants Details are given of a new form of approval of applications
for grant and a new form of application for grant.
HEALTH EDUCATION
The following activities were carried out during the year the majority of them
taking place during the winter months following a circular letter to all organisations
in the Borough, sent out in September, telling them of the facilities available for
talks and discussions.
Discussion Groups and Talks:
Given by various members of the Department, usually on some particular aspect of
the Department s work. Eighteen Talks and Discussion Groups were presented to a total
of four hundred and ninety persons, the average attendance being twenty seven.