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The ten-year programme to cover the whole district with
Smoke Control Areas is nearing completion Smoke Control Orders
have been made for 90% of the area and 80% of the dwellings in
the district. Any visible smoke from industrial premises is so
unusual as to call for comment and investigation, According to
figures published by the Department of Scientific and Industrial
Research the degree of pollution in the district is now as good
as or better than many small non-industrial towns with a reputation
for salubriousness.
This is a picture of a busy industrial town, clean, pleasant
and well-run which can, thanks to a progressive Council and a
keen hardworking staff enter the new consortium with its head
held high.
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 and
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, outworker's premises, shops, offices and workplaces.
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