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5
Home Safety
After considering the matter on two or three occasions the Public
Health committee came to the conclusion that there would be no advantage
in the setting up of an ad hoc local safety committe, but that the
best approach would be for the Public Health committee to have regular
reports on home safety matters; this is being carried out. It was also
decided to publish a quarterly home safety bulletin and the first issue
was made in January 1960.
Staff
The shortage of one in the establishment of public health inspectors
remained during the year. The scheme for training student inspectors
is working well apart from some difficulties in recruitment. The
type of candidate we want regularly year by year is the school leaver
who has passed his GCE in the requisite subjects, but we do not get
many applicants from schools when we advertise in June of each year,
and when the appointment is made—as it has to be for academic purposes
in. July—it is not known whether the boy has passed his GCE
satisfactorily. There appears to be no solution to this problem at
present, but in spite of the difficulties we have at present a full complement
of students.
In ending the introduction to this report I wish to express my
thanks to the Public Health Department staff for their work during the
year, and more particularly, as I have indicated above under the paragraph
on clean air, for the additional work they have got through and
difficulties they have surmounted in this new but extremely important
subject.
My thanks are also due to the Public Health Committee for their
support and guidance in the work done. The Public Health Committee
during the year was constituted as follows:
Alderman A. A. Hawkins (Chairman).
Councillor E. F. Inch (Vice-Chairman).
Alderman J. A. Cox, J.P. (The Mayor).
Alderman C. S. E. Fox.
Councillors Mrs. R. K. Bartlett, J. V. Braund, Mrs. N. L. Bunce,
Mrs. D. I. Cox, J. Donovan, P. E. J. Forward, F. S. Gander, B.Sc.
(Hons.) Eng., F. W. T. Hibbert, Mrs. D. Hurren, Mrs. G. M. M.
Land, Mrs. J. Marsh, Mra D. E. New and A. J. Pinnegar.