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REPORT OP THE CHIEF SANITARY INSPECTOR.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The following Report upon the activities
of your sanitary inspection staff for the year
1945 is the twenty-seventh annual statement it
has been my privilege to submit to you. It covers
that part of public health work which is referred
to as environmental hygiene, and includes housing,
food and general sanitary circumstances.
For the first three months of the year
under review Mr.Clegg was loaned to the Borough
Surveyor to assist with war damage repairs and
during part of this same period also, the remaining
staff was fully engaged in connection with the V2
incident in Park Road,
The interruption caused to normal duties
by war-time conditions was in itself serious enough,
but staffing resources were strained still further
by the loss of Mr. Smith's services for a month,
owing to an attack of mumps. Generally, the
depletion of staff which had continued during the
war years was not made good by the end of the year.
The Report is restricted in character and
is principally a factual record.