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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 ten samples of rag flock and other fillings were taken for
analysis. The results were satisfactory, with the exception of a
sample of woollen mixture felt. This was found to contain 47 parts
of chlorine per 100,000, whereas the permitted maximum is 30.
Appropriate warnings were given in this case.
Description
No. of samples
taken
Algerian fibre 1
Coir fibre 1
Cotton felt 3
Hair 2
Sisal pad 1
Woollen mixture felt 2
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, nine 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 an important activity of both Central
and Local Authorities and forms an integral part of the National Health
Service.
For many years the Council have made an annual grant of fifteen
guineas to the Central Council for Health Education, which is the body
recognised by the Minister 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
material are frequently obtained from the Central Council for use in
Kensington.
The Council continued to purchase copies of "Better Health"
(the monthly journal of the Central Council for Health Education) for
free distribution to members of the public.
Posters, booklets and leaflets, dealing with health matters,
were sent to all youth clubs, old people's clubs, voluntary organisations,
large business houses, etc., in the borough during the year, for the
information of their members or staffs. In this way a wide section
of the general public can be reached easily and quickly.
Bookmarks are a most valuable form of health propaganda; once
having been taken from the library counter and placed in a book, the
marker is constantly before the reader on each occasion the volume is