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For the convenience of ratepayers, the Council has decided to arrange
disinfection even when this is not essential in the interests of public health,
but in these cases the following charges are made :—
10s. per load of bedding, etc., 5s. for the first room, and 2s. 6d.
for each additional room disinfected at the same time.

NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948, SECTION 50.
Under the above section, as from 5th July, 1948, the Council became
responsible for the disposal of the remains of any person dying in the
District, where suitable arrangements would not otherwise be made, and
before the end of the year one burial had been arranged.
HEALTH PROPAGANDA.
Steady use was made of the opportunities for health propaganda at
the clinics and centres arranged by the Council, and during the visitation
of the Health Visitors and Sanitary Inspectors. The material provided
by the Central Council for Health Education and other bodies has been
extremely useful and is widely employed.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
From 1915 until 5th July, 1948, this Council was responsible for the
maternity and child welfare work in the District, and had built up a service
which was recognised as being second to none in the County. With the
implementation of the National Health Service Act, however, it was transferred
to the County Council, the only consolations being that the officers
concerned were also transferred en bloc, while certain of the responsibilities
were immediately decentralised to Divisional Sub-Committees thus retaining
to a limited extent local influence and interest. It is hoped with
considerable justification that the County Maternity and Child Welfare
Service will become a richer and more useful one as a result of the absorption
of the heterogeneous services of the hitherto autonomous Authorities,
but much will depend on the degree of real decentralisation and the
encouragement given to Divisional initiative.
There appears to be no point in recording the relevant statistics for
only six months of the year, nor in dealing with the arrangements which
then pertained, particularly as in future reference can presumably only be
made to the effectiveness of these services in so far as they influence the
vital statistics and public health of the District.
It might, however, be useful to enumerate the arrangements now in
operation for the guidance of residents who may have access to this
Report.
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