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24.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES
Before detailing sanitary circumstances under its various headings,
certain significant features of the part of the Report worthy of special
mention are herewith summarised.
Staff.
As a complete contrast to the gloomy preamble of last year's Report which
underlined the difficulties of carrying out important duties due to a depleted
staff of Public Health Inspectors, it is a pleasure to report that owing to
the determined efforts of the Council, for the first time for over a decade on
January 1st 1962 a full complement of Public Health Inspectors had been
established.
At the beginning of the year the prospect of being able to complete a
full programme of basic routine inspections of all premises in the Borough
considered to be the very foundation of the Public Health Inspectors' work
was for the first time for many years a practical possibility, and assisted
by the use of pocket tape recorders and making full use of the Public Health
Inspectors' technical abilities ultimately reducing clerical and paper work
to a minimum, it is with humble pride one is able to report that one hundred
per cent basic routine inspections of all premises in the Borough have been
completed for the first time for many years.
Having a full complement of Public Health Inspectors including a nucleus
of well experienced Public Health Inspectors it is now possible to continue
with an extensive and comprehensive scheme of training for Student Public
Health Inspectors.)
We now have three Students in the Department, two of whom will sit for
the Public Health Inspectors Examination in 1963 and one in 1964.
The Prevention and Suppression of Excessive Noise.
Under this subject, of significant importance is the fact that during
the year, Shoreditch Borough Council became the first local authority in the
country to resolve that in any future contracts let out by them a clause
shall be included limiting the noise of road breakers and preventing all
excessive unnecessary noise from them. A great deal of investigation and
research work has been carried out by the Chief Public Health Inspector in
very close liaison with manufacturers and users of road breaking equipment,
and further important research work in this direction has already been
organised to take place during 1963, details of which are fully enumerated in
the body of this section of the Annual Report.
Atmospheric Pollution.
Under this subject of paramount importance are two features (a) the
confirmation and operation of two further Smoke Control Orders within the
Borough and the submission of a third Smoke Control Order to the Minister for