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III. SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES
The District Public Health Inspectors served 2,512 Notices during
the year, and in 86 cases legal proceedings were employed to enforce
compliance therewith.
At the end of the year, the Department was up to full strength in
the establishment of District Public Health Inspectors for the first time
in 13 years.
New legislation passed this year affecting this section of the
department included the Animal Boarding Establishments Act, 1963, and
the Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act, 1963.
Aspects of the work of the inspectors not covered in the following
paragraphs will be found in the statistical appendix, pages 66 to 68.
Animal Boarding Establishments Act. 1963
This Act which received the Royal Assent on 31st July 1963, and comes
into operation on 1st January 1964, requires boarding establishments for
animals to be licensed by the Council on payment of a fee and provides
for such conditions as the Council deems necessary to be specified in
the licence together with powers of inspection to ascertain whether the
conditions are being complied with.
There is one such establishment in the Borough. During the year
the Council adopted a set of conditions subject to which a licence may
be granted, and fixed the licence fee at ten shillings.
Certificates of Disrepair (Rent Act. 1957)
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During the year 8 applications under the Rent Act 1957 were received
from tenants for Certificates of Disrepair, four certificates being issued.
Clean Air
Following the issue at the end of the year of a White Paper on the
Minister of Power's reassessment of the probable availability of smokeless
fuels during the next decade compared with the likely demand, the Minister
of Housing and Local Government in Circular No.69/63 outlined revised
arrangements consequentially considered necessary. Open grate gas coke
may not be available, whereas there will be plenty of hard coke, so that
the installation of heaters capable of burning the latter should be
encouraged with the aid of grant on the full expenditure which hitherto
was not approved. It is also recommended that householders choosing
electric heating should be encouraged to install the storage type of
heater,which takes power at off-peak periods, rather than the direct type
which gives out heat as soon as switched on and causes peak load supply
difficulties. These recommendations will be put into effect in future
Smoke Control Orders.
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