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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., registersSupervision
of food, ascertainment and condemnation of unfit foodRoutine
periodic examination of public water supplies—Middlesex
County Council Act, 1950, registration of hawkers of food 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 dwellings 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—Prevention of
Damage by Pests Act, 1949, ascertainment of infestations and dealing
therewith, pamphlet available regarding poisoning, trapping, rat
proofing—Supervision under Hydrogen Cyanide (Fumigation of
Buildings) Regulations, 1951—Cleansing of verminous premises,
pamphlets distributed on the protection against house flies, the destruction
of ants and the destruction of wasps—Use of D.D.T. preparations
—Borough bye-laws 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. HOUSING. Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954. This
Act came into force on the 30th August of this year. A circular
accompanying the Act states that the new Act provides the statutory
powers for widening the scope of housing policy and necessary to
implement the proposals made in the Government's White Paper,
"Houses—The Next Step." Since the War, policy has been concerned
mainly with the erection of new houses and flats for families
lacking these, but Parliament has now decided the time has come
to give more attention to the nation's stock of existing houses. In
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