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registered premises except from premises licensed for manufacturing
rag flock or used as a store for rag flock. A local authority on
receiving from the occupier of premises an application for the grant
or renewal of an annual licence authorising him to manufacture rag flock
or to use his premises as a rag flock store, may grant or renew the
licence on payment of a fee of one pound. No licences have been issued
in Kensington.
If on registered premises there are unclean filling materials,
the occupier shall be guilty Of an offence; and it is also an offence
to sell or offer for sale any article which is upholstered with unclean
filling materials (second-hand articles are excepted).
Inspections of the registered premises were made during the year
and nine samples of rag flock and other fillings were taken for analysis.
The results were satisfactory.
Description
No. of samples
taken
Hair 1
Coir fibre 2
Woollen Felt 1
Cotton Pelt 3
Rag flock 1
Algerian Fibre 1
Pet Animals Act, 1951
This Act requires that no person shall keep a pet shop except
under the authority of a licence issued by the Council and in compliance
with any conditions specified in the licence.
During the year, eight premises were licensed under the Act.
The general conditions for pet shops approved by the Council are those
recommended for their constituent councils by the Metropolitan Boroughs'
Standing Joint Committee.
Health Education
Health education is being increasingly recognised as a vital
part of the public health service.
In recent years, the public health department has organised a
Health Exhibition, a Pood Hygiene Exhibition, and several smaller campaigns,
mainly in connection with atmospheric pollution, flies, nuisances from dogs
and home safety. Whilst these periodic campaigns are an extremely valuable
form of health propaganda, they are soon forgotten, and there is need for
a more continuous form of health education. This has been accomplished
by the distribution each month of copies of "Better Health" (the monthly
journal of the Central Council for Health Education) to clubs, hospitals
and various other organisations in the borough; by the display of suitable
posters on the ex-Empire Marketing Board poster-frames and other sites in
Kensington; and by the distribution of booklets, bookmarks, leaflets,
posters, etc., dealing with such matters as food hygiene, food poisoning,
infectious diseases, home safety, etc.
The Council make an annual grant of fifteen guineas to the
Central Council for Health Education, a body recognised by the Ministry
of Health as the medium through which health education material is
distributed throughout England and Wales. Good use is made of the
services available and posters, leaflets and other materials are frequently
obtained from the Central Council for use in Kensington.