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step nearer by the Minister of Housing and Local Government's
Circular 42/62, urging Local Authorities to make a determined
and sustained effort to bring about a big increase in the number
of houses being improved. On consideration of the Circular the
Council declared its belief that good housing was one of the
basic necessities for a healthy and happy life and approved in
principle an all-out effort being made to provide every house
in the District, where practicable, with the five standard
air.enities.
My report on the work of the Public Health Inspectors is
set out under the following headings:
I. Sanitary Administration, viz:- inspection of the district,
summary of complaints, notices served, legal proceedings,
offensive trades, drainage and sewerage, keeping of animals,
rodent control, destruction of vermin and insect pests,
disinfection, ponds, ditches and watercourses.
II. Air Pollution, viz:- smoke control areas, height of chimneys,
new furnaces, the Dark Smoke (Permitted Periods)
Regulations, 1958, grit and dust, byelaws re new heating
and cooking appliances, pollution from road vehicles, pollution
from railway, industrial bonfires, measurement of
atmospheric pollution, publicity, West Middlesex Clean Air
Co-ordinating Committee.
III. Pood, viz:- milk supply, ice cream, inspection of meat anc
other foods, food hygiene, aircraft catering, hawkers of
food, sampling of food and drugs, food poisoning, complaints
about food, inspection of food premises.
IV. Housing, viz:- inspection, repair, demolition, closure,
overcrowding, houses in multiple occupation, certificates
of disrepair, improvement grants, moveable dwellings, new
houses.
V. Factories, Shops, Offices, etc. viz:- inspection of fac
tories, outworkers premises, shops, officesr.nd workplaces.
VI. Miscellaneous: - Petroleum (Regulation) Acts, 1928-36, Rag
Flock and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951, Heating Appliances
(Fireguards) Act, 1952, Pet Animals Act, 1951,
Agriculture (Safety, Health & Welfare Provisions) Act,
1956, Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907 (Dealers in
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