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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 4 samples of rag flock and other fillings were taken for
analysis. The results were satisfactory.
Description No. of samples
Algerian Fibre 1
Cotton Felt 3
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, 9 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 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 1962/63, the Council made a grant of £23. 0s. 0d.
Posters, leaflets and other material (including copies
of "Better Health") were obtained from the Central Council for
distribution in Kensington.
Posters dealing with a variety of health topics were
displayed at regular intervals during the year on the poster boards
available throughout the borough and in the public health department.
Leaflets on many subjects were made available to the public
through the department.
Smoking and Health
In March, 1962, the Royal College of Physicians published
a report on "Smoking and Health." This report assessed the evidence
about the relationship of smoking and health and, inter alia,