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Smoke Abatement
The factory chimneys in the area have been kept under observation
and generally little nuisance from smoke or grit has occurred.
Fifteen complaints were received during the year, a number of
them relating to burning of garden and other refuse.
A considerable number of installations, both industrial and
domestic, are being converted or installed for oil burning.
Many enquiries are received by the Petroleum Inspector from
persons desirous of installing oil fired plant and for the safe storage
of the oil and whilst advice is freely given it is sometimes refused
in the absence of the necessary legislation to control this matter.
Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951
There are two traders whose premises come within the definition
of the Act and are registered.
Pet Animals Act, 1951
The number of persons licensed at the end of the year was 6.
All the premises have been inspected.
Heating Appliances (Fireguards) Act, 1952
Thirty-one visits have been made to premises to ascertain that the
provisions of the Act were being complied with. In one shop, an
electric fire was found which did not comply with the regulations
made under the Act. Legal proceedings were instituted and the hearing
was to take place early in 1957.
Burial Act, 1857
Licences for the removal of human remains under the above
Act state, inter alia, "It is considered advisable that the Medical
Officer of Health should be notified whenever such a licence is
granted in order that he may be in a position to take (under his
general powers) any action that may appear to him to be necessary
in the interests of public health." Five copies of licences for such
removals were received from the Home Office during the year.
The exhumations were carried out in the early hours of the
morning and were visited when necessary by one of the public health
inspectors, in order to ascertain that the conditions of the licences
were complied with.
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