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Other subjects dealt with in Circulars issued by Government
Departments included the following:
Ministry of Health.
Annual Reports of Medical Officers of Health; Anthrax; Food
Hygiene Codes of Practice (Transport and Handling of Fish and Hygiene
in the Retail Fish Trade); National Health Services - Future of Chest
Services; Outworkers in the Shrimp & Pickled Onion Industries - Review
of the Food Hygiene (Amendment) Regulations, 1957.
Ministry of Agriculture. Fisheries & Food.
Official certificates under the Public Health (Imported Food)
Regulations in respect of Eritrea, Gibraltar and Italy; Approved
Chemical Agents;- Fluoracetamide for the Control of Rats in Sewers.
Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
The Clean Air Act, 1956; Smoke Control Areas; Slum Clearance;
litter; Heating of Public Buildings; Rent Act, 1957; More Flatlets
for Old People.
Home Office.
Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933.
General Register Office.
Infectious and Other Notifiable Diseases (weekly and quarterly
returns); Transfer of Births, Deaths and Still-births; Vital Statistics
- Annual Reports of Medical Officer of Health.
SWIMMING AND SUPPER BATHS.
Three Swimming Baths are provided by the Council in the Borough.
During the year the number of swims amounted to 215,219, comprising
57,717 adults and 157,502 children.
The water is subjected to a continuous chlorination and filtration
process, passing through the filters once every 3½-hours. Ten samples
were taken during the year for bacteriological and chemical analysis.
Four were found to be unsatisfactory: one by reason of low pH value and
three revealing a low free chlorine content.
The number of Slipper Baths taken during the year at the four
Council establishments was 223,809, which included 7,326 by old age
pensioners and 114. by unemployed persons, who were admitted free of
charge.
The total number of persons admitted to all sections of the Baths
and Washhouses Department, including the Laundry, was 479,751.
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