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The sale of pet foods from ordinary food shops has aroused considerable
attention. The potential danger of infecting human foodstuffs
is, in my opinion, very high and can never be kept completely
at bay without legislation prohibiting the sale of human and animal
foodstuffs from one and the same shop. One seems to be crying for
the moon at the moment, but once the public realise the implications
opinion will, I feel, insist on regulations to eliminate this increasing
danger.
Smoke control continues steadily, if necessarily slowly, and has now
been generally accepted as desirable by the public at large.
A steadily increasing number of applications for Council re-housing
on medical grounds come through the Department's hands. All are
sympathetically dealt with, and I hope justice is usually not only done
but is seen to be done. Inevitably some applicants remain disappointed,
but our biggest need remains for ground floor accommodation
for handicapped and elderly people.
On the whole then 1961 was a year of steady progress without many
special features of note, but once again characterised by a large and
increasing volume of work done by every member of my staff, to all
of whom my very sincere thanks.
C. M. Scott,
Medical Officer of Health.
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