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SANITARY ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOROUGH
MR. H. HOYLAND,
Chief Public Health Inspector
* This section of the report concerns the work of the public health inspectors and
associated officers.
For the purpose of district inspection, the borough is divided into three areas,
north, central and south. The overall supervision of each area is the responsibility of a
senior.district inspector. The three areas are sub-divided to form twelve districts, these
being the responsibility of twelve district inspectors including the three seniors. Unfortunately,
owing to illness and staff shortages, the inspector has frequently had to control
two or more districts.
In addition to district duties, there are inspectors and assistants engaged on the
following specialised work:-
(1) One senior housing inspector with a team of five inspectors engaged exclusively
on duties in connection with houses in multiple occupation in
specified areas.
(2) One senior housing inspector dealing with slum clearance and underground
rooms.
(3) One senior inspector dealing with improvement grants, applications for
mortgage and overcrowding.
(4) One senior inspector withone technical assistant engaged on dutiesunder
the Clean Air Act, 1956, in connection with the making of Smoke Control
Orders and atmospheric pollution recordings.
(5) One senior inspector engaged on duties in connection with the Offices,
Shops and Railway Premises Act, 1963, together with special duties for
pilot schemes or research projects.
(6) One senior inspector dealing exclusively with the sampling of food and
drugs, fertilisers and feeding stuffs and rag flock andother filling materials
used in the upholstery trade. He also investigates all complaints in connection
with these products.
The inspectors are supported in their work by two technical assistants, including
the one referred to above, two drainage assistants, together with a rodent officer and six
assistant rodent officers, and the chief disinfector with six assistants. Although the day-today
work of inspectors and assistants has been maintained throughout the year, there has been
an unavoidable reduction of routine inspections owing to staff shortages.
The majority of the work of the inspectors has been carried out without the need
to resort inany major degree to legal proceedings. 3,472 complaints were received and
40,992 inspections and re-inspections made to all types of premises, resulting in only 113
summonses being issued, sixty-seven of which concerned offences under the food and Drugs
Act, 1955.
WORK DONE BY PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTORS AND
THEIR ASSISTANTS
INSPECTIONS MADE
The following is a summary of the inspections, etc., carried out by the public
health inspectors and their assistants during the year:-