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10. Laboratory Facilities 26
11. Mortuary 26
12. Disinfection Services 26
13. Welfare of Old People 26
14. National Assistance Act, 1948, Section
50 (Burials) 26
D Sanitary Circumstances of the Area
1. Refuse Collection and Disposal 27
(a) Costs 27
(b) Details of Refuse Collection Vehicles
and staff 27
(c) Details of tonnage 28
2. Trade Refuse 28
3. Salvage 28
4. Public Conveniences 29
5. Sanitary Inspection of the Area 29
(a) Visits by Public Health Inspectors 29
(b) Premises visited and results of such
visits 30
(c) Summary of Nuisances abated and
defects remedied during the year 30
(d) Drainage, Closet accommodation
and Cesspools 30
(e) Atmospheric Pollution 31
(f) The Clean Air Act, 1956 32
(g) Swimming Baths and Pools 32
(h) Offensive Trades 33
(i) Rag Flock and Other Filling
Materials Act, 1951 34
(j) Pet Animals Act, 1951 34
(k) Camping Sites 34
(l) Hop Pickers 35
(m) Rodent Control 35
(n) Pest Control 35
(o) Eradication of Bed Bugs 36
(p) Heating Appliances (Fireguards)
Act 1952 and Regulations 1953 36
(q) Mosquito Control 36
(r) Agriculture (Safety, Health and
Welfare Provisions) Act, 1956 36
(s) Fowl Pest 37
6. Shops Act, 1950 37
7. Sanitary Accommodation at Offices 37
8. Street Trading 38
9. River Thames—Effluvia 38
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