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CHAPTER IV.
ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE, FOOD AND WATER,
HOUSING, FACTORIES, ETC.
1. HAWKERS AND STREET TRADING. When major
events occur at the Stadium a substantial number of hawkers and
street traders invariably attempt to pursue their calling in the neighbourhood
of the Stadium, and the Department has felt for some time
that those concerned with the vending of foodstuffs and ice cream
should be subjected to strict control.
During the year special visits were paid to the neighbourhood of
the Stadium when important events were occurring, and a number of
unsatisfactory traders were noted. On report to the Committee
decisions were reached to prosecute, not only for failure to register as a
hawker under the Middlesex County Council Act of 1950, but also
under the Food Hygiene Regulations when appropriate. The effect
of this is to secure a larger penalty in the event of a successful
prosecution, and thereby to act as an increased deterrent to unsatisfactory
hawkers of foodstuffs in the Borough.
During the year three defendants were fined a total of
£38 0s. Od. in respect of twenty-one convictions, and the Council,
in addition, were awarded twenty guineas costs; eight cases presented
to the Magistrates were dismissed.
2. SCHOOL SWIMMING POOLS. Increased interest in
the year called for advice on standards requisite to the training pools
which various schools in the Borough wish to provide for the tuition of
pupils. It was felt that the time was long past for the fill/empty
type of pool, and the advice given to the Borough Education Officer
was that no pool could be approved unless proposals included an
automatic mechanical pump for circulation of the water, and a
reliable automatic chlorinator. Arrangements should include nominating
some member of the staff, if possible trained in chemistry, to
accept responsibility for the chlorination, purification and testing of
the water. It would not be necessary for this staff member to
undertake the work personally, but he could delegate the actual testing
and chlorination to some individual on the domestic staff of the
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