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adjoining Borough of Willesden. This gauge is in an industrial
area in proximity to a power station and the total solids per
month deposited and expressed in tons per square mile were:—
March 33.98 August 20.41
April 20.32 September 21.73
May 26.34 October 21.04
June 21.57 November 38.33
July 13.83 December 23.61
It would have afforded an interesting comparison had it been
possible to install an additional gauge in a non-industrial part of
the Borough to act as a "control."
Considerable efforts have continued to be made in the
Borough towards the elimination of smoke from industrial plant.
3. FOOD HYGIENE. Conditions in food premises have continued
to improve, due no doubt to a variety of reasons — the
constant drive by personal approach and the persuasive powers
of the staff of the Public Health Department; the continued
activities of the Wembley Clean Food Association; possibly the
easing of the position with regard to the issue of building licences;
and last, but by no means least, the willingness of the more
enlightened traders to effect improvements without pressure from
official or other sources.
The Council decided to provide official printed notices to
those traders willing to exhibit them with regard to dogs in food
shops, and the Wembley Clean Food Association decided to provide
their members with their own design of similar notices but
signed by the Medical Officer of Health with the full approval
of the Council.
4. FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK, DAIRIES AND ARTIFICIAL
CREAM) ACT, 1950; THE MILK AND DAIRIES
REGULATIONS, 1949; THE MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATION)
(RAW MILK) REGULATIONS, 1949 and 1950; THE MILK
(SPECIAL DESIGNATION) (PASTEURISED AND STERILISED
MILK) REGULATIONS, 1949 and 1950; THE MILK (SPECIAL
DESIGNATION) (SPECIFIED AREAS) ORDER, 1951.
This legislation was fully operative in the Borough for the
whole of 1952 with the result that all milk sold in the area was
designated milk, the bulk of it being pasteurised or sterilised.
No action was found to be necessary under Regulation 20 of
the Milk and Dairies Regulations (relating to disease communicable
to man by consumption of milk).
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