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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF PUBLIC HEALTH
INSPECTOR FOR THE YEAR 1962
July, 1963.
To : The Chairman and Members of the
Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District Council.
Madam Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my Annual Report for 1962. Members
will remember that during 1961 the Department's work suffered owing to
the absence, due to sickness, of Mrs. Taylor, my Secretary and Chief Clerk,
and it was a sad loss that Mrs. Taylor finally had to resign owing to continuing
illness. Her position was only filled late in the year. I also reported
how difficult the clerical work proved to be at the weighbridge, but this was
overcome with the appointment of the present Clerk who is keeping all
records up to date satisfactorily.
The wide range of Public Health Environmental duties was carried ou:
satisfactorily and the second five-year slum clearance programme ending in
1965 is proceeding well, two thirds of the programme being completed.
A successful attempt to bring the Council's Smoke Control Area Programme
up to date was achieved by the confirmation and bringing into
operation of Smoke Control Orders Nos. 3 and 4.
For many years, in past Annual Reports, I felt it my duty to report the
desirability of sewering the village of Longford and this was finally completed
in the middle of the year. I report in greater detail on this project
elsewhere in my report.
Imported food to this Country has been carefully checked and the
result of the Department's work in this connection, shown elsewhere in this
report, will, I hope, be interesting to read. There is a sense of satisfaction —
although this work is most inconvenient to Inspectors having to do inspections
during the night—in knowing that the Health Department is
watching not only its local areas food supplies, but the nation's, if only to a
small extent.
I feel that I must make reference at this point to the fact that Dr.
Bobbett will be retiring in 1963 and to put on record my appreciation of
him.
He has, during my 24 years service with the Council, never failed to
help and encourage me, and 1 trust that he will enjoy a long and happy
retirement. My colleagues in the Public Health Department all join me in
this wish.
I am, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
Alfred Makin,
Chief Public Health Inspector.
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