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found necessary to prosecute a firm with regard to a cigarette end
in a loaf of bread, this being the second or third complaint of a
like nature. The prosecution was successful.
In 1949 the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the
Middlesex County Council took over the control of the milk production
at farms and dairies in the district.
In June, at the request of the Borough of Wembley, a conference
of all authorities supplied by the Colne Valley Water
Company was held to inquire into the alleged excessive hardness
of the water supplied in their districts. This was a useful conference
at which the Colne Valley Water Company were
represented and many opinions were expressed as to the possible
ill-effects of this hard water. After some discussion and. the issue
of a questionnaire to the Colne Valley Water Company it was
decided that 110 useful purpose would be served in pursuing the
matter any further at present. I hope, however, that this subject
will be reconsidered again in the near future.
Constant watch has been kept 011 open air swimming baths
in the district and in the main the bacteriological tests have been
satisfactory. A further report with regard to Ruislip Lido appears
later.
A large number of complaints were received with regard to
wasps and hornets nests in the district and it was felt that the
department would offer useful service by destroying these nests
at a small charge. In all 169 nests were destroyed during the year.
Three student sanitary inspectors were trained during the
year under the Post War Training Scheme for Sanitary Inspectors
arid thanks have been expressed by the training authorities for the
facilities offered by this Council.
The increasing work of the department as well as the increase
in population in the district led to a review of the staff in October
and it was decided by the Council to augment the staff by one
additional Sanitary Inspector and one Senior Clerk. It is hoped
that the work of the department, some of which was necessarily
not receiving sufficient attention, will thus be brought up-to-date
and still further improved.
In conclusion I would like to stress the good work which has
been undertaken by the sanitary, rodent and clerical personnel
and to acknowledge once again my thanks to them for their continued
conscientious application to their work.
I am,
Your obedient Servant,
L. D. BAILEY,
Medical Officer of Health.
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