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Ealing 1959

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]

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Average Monthly Concentrations of Smoke and Sulphur Dioxide

1959Smoke in Milligrammes per 100 cubic metresSulphur Dioxide in parts per hundred million
Town HallEliots Green SchoolWalpole Grammar SchoolTown HallEliots Green SchoolWalpole Grammar School
Jan.30,911.5
Feb.31.1715. 3
March15.188.5
April11.07.0
May8. 05.4
June6. 04.9
July5. 03 1
Aug4 03,6
Sept10.05.9
Oct13.08 0
Nov.24.0222010.08.48.7
Dec11.010206.35.37.6

FOOD HYGIENE.
The excellent co-operation between Pood Handlers and
the Public Health Department; as reported in previous
years, continues and again no legal proceedings were
necessary to enforce the Pood Hygiene Regulations
This year is the 10th anniversary of the inauguration
of the Ealing Clean Pood Campaign.
The campaign was introduced at a Clean Pood Exhibition
when for one week exhibits by the Ministry of Pood, large
industrial organisations and local concerns. together
with film shows, aroused much interest. Conducted parties
of school children were arranged and a visit from the
B.B.C. with a subsequent broadcast commentary, gave added
publicity and boosted an already satisfactory attendance
even higher.
Immediately following the Exhibition a Pood Hygiene
booklet was issued to all traders and a free course of
Pood Hygiene lectures offered. These lectures have been
most popular and have been held continuously since. They
are given by a Medical Officer and three different Public
Health Inspectors, Interest is increased by the use of
the film "Another case of Pood Poisoning" our own film
strip and a flannelgraph demonstration. They are offered
at any time of the day or evening to suit the audience.
The Council awards a handsome Certificate of Hygiene to
owners of food establishments, including canteens, if
their premises are maintained in a really first-class
condition and if all the members of their staff have