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In not one case has it been necessary to take action for contravention
of the Act in this behalf.
Food Hygiene Education has been a major task of the Inspectors
vested with this important task. So successful have their efforts
been that only in rare instances have there been complaints made
regarding the hygienic standards in food premises. Those responsible
for the management of these establishments have been anxious to
inculcate sound principles of hygiene in their staffs and it is noted
with satisfaction that the amount of smoking by them has almost
disappeared, due in no small measure to the prosecutions instituted
by the Council for offences under the Food Hygiene Regulations of
1960.
Some indication of the effectiveness of health education can be
seen from the fall in the number of food poisoning notifications from
117 in 1960 to 84 in 1961 and for dysentery from 204 to 129 in the
same years.
The Litter Act of 1958 has had some effect in reducing the
unsightliness in the thoroughfares from deposits produced no doubt
in large measure to the prosecution ofoffenders bythe local authority,
the frequent advertisements and exhortations in both press and on
television by the central government and by local publicity.
(i) WATER SUPPLY. — The district is served by the Metropolitan
Water Board and South Essex Waterworks Co. The subject of the water
supply of the Borough was dealt with at length in the Report for 1945.
Dr. E. Windle Taylor, Director of Water Examination of the Metropolitan
Water Board, has kindly supplied me with the following information.
"The part of IIford in the area of the Metropolitan Water Board
is supplied with water derived from the River Lee which is filtered
and chlorinated at the Lee Bridge Works, together with water from
the Board's well at Wanstead.
Samples of water passing into supply from these works are
collected dailyand a total of 306 samples was submitted to chemical
and/or bacteriological examination.
During the year 1961 there were no new sources of supply
instituted by the Board in IIford and no important extensions of trunk
mains or changes in the general scheme of supply. The total distances
of new water mains of various diameters laid in the Borough of