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selected areas or blocks of such properties are surveyed and owners and tenants
encouraged to take advantage of the Improvement Grants Scheme. It is doubtful,
however, whether any real progress will be made in this work until local authorities
are given powers to require compulsorily the provision of such amenities.
More progress was made towards clean air, and two additional parts of the
Borough are now Smoke Control Areas - Hampstead Garden Suburb and the Council's
Whitefield Housing Estate. Work towards the formation of other areas proceeds
steadily.
In the interests of better dental health for future generations to be born
and nurtured in Hendon, the Council has informed the Middlesex County Council,
the Metropolitan Water Board and the Colne Valley Water Company that the Council
are in favour of the fluoridation of those public water supplies which are deficient
in it naturally.
The investigation which was initiated last year by the Director of the Central
Laboratory of the Public Health Laboratory Service has been completed and
published*.
I have included in my Report an extract from the report of the Hendon Old
People's Housing Society and the report of the Chairman of the Borough of Hendon
Old People's Welfare Committee.
I would like to thank the members of the Public Health Committee for their
support and encouragement, and also the members of the staff for their loyal and
conscientious service during the year.
I have the honour to be,
Madam Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
J.L. PATTON,
Medical Officer of Health
*Galbraith, N.S., et al "Lancet" 1962, Vol. 1, p.372 "Pet Foods and Garden Fertilisers
as Sources of Human Salmonellosis".
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