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Individual efforts seem to be getting more limited, and the
fact that we have more freedom and recreational facilities at hand
than ever before does not seem to be producing the effects that
we had at one time thought possible.
Health Education in our Borough is proceeding apace, but
the demand for Health Education amongst the genera! population
is now becoming more seriously felt.
The Clean Food Campaign has not progressed as much as I
would wish, but nevertheless, improvement in many spheres of
food preparation and production is becoming more apparent.
These factors are matters of great consolation to me personally,
because after many years now of effort by your Officers, the
population seems to be more health and hygiene conscious. We
are now coming to the stage in our development where the population
will demand higher standards in the services and facilities
that are available to them. This is a good thing, for in this way
the individuals that go to make up our community will help to
establish their own good standards of health and hygiene.
There are many houses still in the Borough which lack the
facilities to make this possible.
It is contemplated to establish Clearance Areas in order that
the Council may, in their own good time. proceed with demolition
and the establishment of suitable permanent homes.
I have on many occasions drawn attention to the very
dilapidated state of some of the buildings, and it is a source of
great consolation to the members of my staff and myself that the
Council now intend to proceed.
At this stage I would like to mention the hygiene in schools.
Your Education Department will remember that I have on many
occasions mentioned certain separate schools in order that the
sanitary accommodation should be improved. During the year I
have, in company with my Senior Sanitary Inspector, presented a
general survey drawing attention to some of the W.C. accommodation
in our schools; no great progress has been made in this
direction, and I would draw the Council's attention seriously to
this great fault again.
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