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BARNET URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
chief public health inspector's report.
Public Health Department,
31 Wood Street,
Barnet.
To the Chairman and Members of
the Barnet Urban District Council.
I have the honour to present my Annual Report for the year 1960.
On the 1st September, our first Smoke Control area, came into operation on
part of the L.C.C. Estate on the west side of the Barnet Bye Pass; the Council's
second Smoke Control Order was forwarded to the Ministry for confirmation just
before the end of the year, and we had started the circularising and survey work
on the third area. The survey work alone involves many visits to houses, and
much more work will be involved when we get to the stage of supervising the works
of alteration to fireplaces. The Council agreed to the appointment of a Pupil
Public Health Inspector to assist in this work and at the same time the Council
are playing their part in the recruitment and training for this particular branch
of the Local Government Service. In September, Mr. R.W.E. Farr, who had
obtained nine passes at ordinary level in the G.C.E. at the East Barnet Grammar
School, commenced his duties as Pupil in the Department.
It has been rather fortunate that the increased work of the Clean Air Act and
Smoke Control Areas has coincided with a slowing down of our work under the Housing
Acts, due to the shortage of new houses becoming available for families who might
have been displaced from condemned houses.
On the 1st December 1960, we relinquished a duty under the provisions of the
new Factories Act 1959, that of certifying the means of escape in case of fire in
factories to which the Act applies. Although this did not occupy a large
amount of our time, it was an interesting duty and one which kept us in touch with
local industries.
Apart from these changes, our work has proceeded on much the same lines as in
previous years.
I must not close this introduction to the report without expressing my thanks