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PART 4
REPORT
OF
THE CHIEF PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTOR
1963
TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE COULSDON
AND PURLEY URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the pleasure to submit herewith a report on the work of
the Public Health Inspectors for the year 1963.
This will probably be the last report in its present form in
view of the reorganisation of local government in the London area,
which takes effect as from the 1st April, 1965 and from which date
the Urban District as a separate local authority will cease to exist.
During my seventeen years service with the Council as Chief
Public Health Inspector, it has always been the endeavour of the
inspectorate not only to maintain but to improve the environmental
standards of the district whenever possible whether it be in the
field of housing, food hygiene and control, drainage or sanitary
conditions generally.
Much of the work is unspectacular and anonymous in character,
but the very nature of the duties involved bring the Inspector
into very close contact with the personal problems and difficulties
of the residents concerned.
Personal service as free as possible from officialdom can be
very rewarding to officers and public alike and for our part we
have had many rewards.
Whether we have been entirely successful is open to question
but we can at least share in the pleasure, not unmixed with sighs
of relief, that the problem of drainage at Purley Corner has, we
hope, at last been resolved.
Flooding and its attendant after effects at this point has been
a serious nuisance and cause for anxiety to the department for
many years and business houses in the area will be no less relieved
I am sure, that the remedial works have now been completed.
In concluding the introduction to the report, I should like to
record my appreciation of the support given to me at all times by
the Chairman and Members of the Public Health Committee, the
friendly co-operation of Dr. J. B. Morwood, Medical Officer of
Health and the most willing assistance of all my colleagues in the
department.
I am, Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
W. HAWORTH,
Chief Public Health Inspector.
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