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SECTION C
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
The Chief Public Health Inspector reports as follows:-
During the year under review the sanitary circumstances of the
district have been generally satisfactory. The Council's original
five year programme of slum clearance has been delayed somewhat
because of the difficulties in obtaining sites forre-housing purposes.
Nevertheless the project is nearing completion.
The Council's decision to determine high standards in the
provision of sanitary conveniences, sinks, water supplies, food
cupboards, cooking facilities and dustbins for the use of families
occupying houses let in lodgings was efficacious in preventing the
widespread letting of houses in separate tenements. When the owners
received the Council's notices to provide satisfactory amenities,
a speedy reduction in the number of tenancies ensued. But strict
control of these premises must be maintained.
The proposed new Housing (Management of Houses in Multiple
Occupation) Regulations should have an ameliorating effect on
housing conditions generally.
The Council's proposals for formulating Smokeless zones has
grown apace. There are two areas formally approved and three others
are in advanced stages of preparation.
Nuisances from smoke emission have been reduced somewhat
but the problem of soots and smells from one well known industrial
plant has continued to cause concern to the occupants of dwellings
nearby. This factory is under the control of the Alkali Works Act
Inspectorate hence free from action by the Council. As this factory
will soon be included in a "Smokeless Zone" perhaps some mitigation
of the nuisance will be obtained.
It is conceded that most industrialists have co-operated in the
diminution of atmospheric pollution by converting appliances and
plant to smokeless fuels.
Householders too have accepted their responsibilities in this
field of health promotion, have assiduously conformed to the advice
given by the Public Health Inspectors and have been pleased in
general with the salutary effects produced in the smoke control area.