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CONTROL OF FOOD FACTORIES, LARGE WHOLESALE DEPOTS
AND STORES
These are visited regularly by the Senior Public Health Inspector (Food)
to ensure the maintenance of the highest standard of hygiene and include milk
bottling plants, and factories making sausages, meat pies, pastries and ice-cream
and bacon processing plants.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION
No spccial campaigns were mounted during 1971, but, in their daily contact
with members of the public and food handlers particularly, the public health
inspectors constantly advise and instruct on matters of hygiene.
Formal instruction or organised groups on any aspect of Public Health
Inspection is readily given on request, and lectures were given to various schools
and organisations.
HOUSING
The work of the Public Health Inspectorate covers many aspects of housing,
in particular
1. the clearance of unfit areas of houses, individual unfit houses and
parts of houses.
2. the modernisation and improvement of the existing housing stock.
3. the repair and maintenance of existing housing stock.
4. the prevention of overcrowding, control of multiple occupation
and means of escape in case of fire.
5. the inspection of houses where qualification certificates are applied
for.
Clearance
During 1971 the Council declared 5 Clearance areas containing 111 houses
with 389 persons. 15 houses were demolished.