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REPORT OF CHIEF PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTOR
I beg to submit a report for the year ending 31st December,
1956 of the work of the Public Health Inspectors and other offi-
cers under my control.
It will be observed that there has been a change of designation
in respect of the qualified members of the staff from
Sanitary Inspector to Public Health Inspector, as it is thought
the new title better describes the duties now undertaken by these
officers.
Last year new housing legislation absorbed much of the time
of the staff with the survey of the older houses for the preparation
of clearance and redevelopment areas and the inspection of
properties where certificates of disrepair had been applied for.
This year new legislation in the formof the Food Hygiene Regulations
has occupied a considerable amount of the working time of
the inspectorate.
Shortly after the Regulations came into force a summary of
the Regulations, accompanied by a letter explaining their import
and asking for co-operation was sent to all proprietors of food
businesses in the Borough. There has been a readiness generally,
in the part of traders, to co-operate and this, allied to the
public relations work done by the inspectorate together with the
enforcement work undertaken in connection with previous legislation,
has been responsible for much progress in complying with
the Regulations. I am pleased to take this opportunity of thanking
the traders who responded so well to the appeal for co-operation
and thus lightened the burden of enforcement. The pages of
the report given over to food inspection shows the progress in
detail.
In the field of "housing", progress has been made in dealing
with properties unfit for habitation in that in the Ely Road area
the worst of the houses have been demolished and others, when
vacated, will be dealt with similarly. The Crescent Mews area of
Warminster Road is now being dealt with. In addition many individual
houses have been made the subject of either demolition or
closing orders.
Again I have to report an increase in the "through put" of
finals at the Abattoir, the number slaughtered being 56,362, 25
Percent, more than last year's total. This amount of slaughtering