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The Act further provides that no rag flock shall be delivered
to 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).

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, 8 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 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. For the year
1960/61, the Council made a grant of £23, Os. Od.
Good use was made of the services available, and posters,
leaflets and other material (including copies of Better Health) were
obtained from the Central Council for Health Education for use in
Kensington.
The Borough Librarian and his staff readily co-operated
with the public health department during the year in distributing
health education bookmarks to members of the public using the
Council's lending libraries.
At the beginning of the year, there were nine ex-Empire
Marketing Boards still in existence. Three were replaced in 1960 by
smaller modern boards supported by metal frames of modern design,
each capable of displaying four double-crown posters (size 30" x 20");
and three more were to be replaced before the end of the financial
year I960/6I. For the time being, the remaining three ex-Empire
Marketing Boards, which are fixed to walls, are being retained.