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SECTION VII
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Transitional difficulties presented by the application to the
Borough of the previously provincial Public Health Acts of 1936
and 1961, were successfully overcome during 1966, the first complete
year of the new London Borough of Greenwich. Some deficiencies
in these Acts, such as procedures for the abatement of urgent
nuisances in defective premises and the reinstatement of interrupted
water supplies, are already receiving attention and legislation is being
promoted by the Greater London Council with a view to restoring
the previous position.
New Legislation
The Construction (Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1966
These Regulations, made by the Minister of Labour, became
operative on 1st May, 1966 and impose requirements for the health
and welfare of persons employed at places where building operations
and works of engineering construction are carried on. The Regulations
contain provisions as to first-aid and ambulance arrangements,
shelter from the weather, accommodation for clothing and for taking
meals, protective clothing, washing facilities and sanitary conveniences.
However, only the undermentioned Regulations which relate
to sanitary conveniences are enforceable by district councils:-
Regulation 13
(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this Regulation, a contractor shall
provide at least one suitable sanitary convenience (not being a
convenience suitable only as a urinal) for every 25 persons in
his employment on a site.
(2) Where a contractor has more than 100 persons in his employment
on a site, and sufficient urinal accommodation is also
provided, it shall be sufficient if there is one such convenience
as aforesaid for every 25 persons in his employment on the site
up to the first 100 and one for every 35 persons thereafter.
(3) In calculating the number of conveniences required by this
Regulation any number of persons less than 25 or 35, or in
excess of a multiple of 25 or 35, as the case may be, shall be
reckoned as 25 or 35.
Regulation 14
(1) Every sanitary convenience shall be sufficiently ventilated, and
shall not communicate with any workroom or messroom except
through the open air or through an intervening ventilated space.