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III. SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES
The District Public Health Inspectors served 1,971 Notices during
the year, and in 80 cases legal proceedings were employed to enforce
compliance therewith.
At the end of the year there were five vacancies in the establishment
of Public Health Inspectors.
Aspects of the work of the inspectors not covered in the following
paragraphs will be found in the statistical appendix, pages 53-55.
Certificates of Disrepair (Rent Act, 1957)
During the year, ten applications under the Rent Act 1957 were
received from tenants for Certificates of Disrepair, 7 certificates being
issued.
Clean Air
The Borough's sixth Smoke Control Order under the Clean Air Act 1956
was made by the Council on 19th November 1964. At the end of the year
the Minister's confirmation of Areas Nos. 5 and 6 was awaited.
Areas Nos. 5 and 6 comprise 445 acres, with 7,043 dwellings and 759
industrial and other premises. The number of heating appliances in
dwellings which are in regular use and which require replacement or
adaptation, is 1,680.
There is, in the Public Health Offices, a Smoke Control Exhibition
open to the public in which various types of approved space-heating and
cooking appliances and authorised fuels are displayed. Arrangements
are also made with the Solid Smokeless Fuels Federation for their Demonstration
Van to tour each Smoke Control Area for a week immediately
prior to the date when the Order comes into operation.
Facing this page is a map showing the Smoke Control Areas established
in the Borough.
Under the provisions of Section 3(3) of the Clean Air Act 1956, a
furnace may not be installed in a building unless notice of proposal to
install has been given to the Council. Notices were given to the Council
of prop sal to install furnaces in 15 premises.
Measurements of air pollution are taken regularly in the Borough by
means of lead peroxide instruments, which give monthly records of the
concentration of sulphur in the air, and also by combined smoke filters
and volumetric sulphur dioxide apparatus which afford daily readings.
Details of visits and inspections made by the Smoke and Factories
Inspector are given on page 56.
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