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CHAPTER IV.
ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE, FOOD AND WATER,
HOUSING, FACTORIES, ETC.
1. SERVICES PROVIDED, Ascertainment, investigation
and abatement of nuisances—Scrutiny re sewers and drains—
Sanitary circumstances of special premises (Public Houses,
Cinemas, Dance Halls) — Co-ordination regarding Local Land
Charges, etc., registers—Supervision of food, ascertainment and
condemnation of unfit food — Routine periodic examination
of public water supplies — Middlesex County Council Act,
1944, registration of hawkers of meat, meat food products,
fish, fruit, vegetables and premises—Registration under Milk and
Dairies Acts—Supervision under Milk (Special Designations;
Regulations—Housing, overcrowding, disrepair, ascertainment and
action thereon—Ascertainment and supervision Of movable dwell
ings under Middlesex County Council Act—Supervision of domestic
refuse bins—Factories and workplaces and outworkers, supervision
regarding smoke — Noise and dust nuisances — Supervision of
petroleum storage—Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919, ascertainment
of infestations and dealing therewith, pamphlet available
regarding poisoning, trapping, rat proofing—Supervision under
Hydrogen Cyanide (Fumigation of Buildings) Regulations, 1938
—Cleansing of verminous premises, pamphlets distributed on the
protection against house flies, the destruction of ants—Use of
D.D.T. preparations — Borough byelaws relevant to Sanitary
Inspectors, Good rule and government and prevention of nuisances,
Nuisances, Offensive trades, Slaughterhouses, Ventilation and
lighting of stables, Building byelaws, Public sanitary conveniences,
Removal of offensive matter, etc., through the streets, Removal of
house refuse.
2. THE MILK AND DAIRIES REGULATIONS, 1949;
THE MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATION) (RAW MILK)
REGULATIONS, 1949; THE MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATION)
(PASTEURISED AND STERILISED MILK) REGULATIONS,
1949. These regulations came into force on the 1st October, 1949,
and all previous regulations relating to milk, including special
designations, were thereby revoked. The new regulations have
brought about a number of changes.
The Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949.
Under the Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949, the Minister of
Agriculture and Fisheries has accepted responsibility for the
registration of all persons carrying on the trade of Dairy Farmers
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