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Public Health Department,
Council Offices,
Billet Lane,
HORNCHURCH,
Essex.
25th May, 1961.
Telephone:
Hornchurch 52555.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Hornchurch Urban District Council.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to present my Report on the health of the district for the year
1960.
The work of the Department during the year continued to expand.
Although the emphasis on certain aspects may vary from district to
district, for example, in some older districts slum clearance may dominate
the picture, in other new and rapidly expanding districts such as
ours, problems of an equally diverse and particular character arise.
Our work in other words lacks neither variety or scope.
Clean Air.
This subject will be mentioned in greater detail in the appropriate
portion of the report which follows. It need only be said here that
we are determined that insofar as it rests within our power the process
of making Hornchurch smoke free will lack neither continuity nor
enthusiasm. It must, however, be said that in the ultimate the pace
will depend not only upon the efforts of the local staff but upon the
celerity with which our representations are determined by the Minister.
Food and Drugs.
The details submitted later in the Report will indicate the sphere
of our activities in this regard. It can in some respects be frustrating
work. I am left with the impression from time to time that the
blandishments of the advertiser carry somewhat greater success than
the efforts made, at any rate, by this Department to ensure that the
public gets what it thinks it is getting.
Infectious Diseases.
No serious outbreak of infectious disease occurred within the district
during the year.