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Assistance Acts when every other means has failed and there is
danger to the life or health of the individual or those living in the
same house.
Water Supplies.
Drinking water is from local wells and from the Metropolitan
Water Board.
Action taken to ensure the purity of these supplies is set out in
the Appendix.
Sanitary Inspections of the District.
The report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector is included in the
Appendix to this Report. It shows that a great deal of work has
been done connected with complaints made by members of the public,
inspections of properties made under the Housing, Public Health and
Factories Acts, etc.
The Sanitary Inspectors are concerned with anything which may
affect the public health and thus their duties are varied and often of
a technical nature.
The policy generally is to obtain improvements by co-operation
and persuasion, and to avoid, as far as possible, resort to the use of
legal powers. Throughout this year only 68 Statutory Notices were
served and it was only necessary to take legal proceedings in one
instance.
Food Premises.
The campaign to obtain high standards of hygiene and sanitation
in all food premises has continued successfully.
Details of improvements obtained are shown in the Appendix.
Generally, the food traders are anxious to co-operate and will carry
out any reasonable improvement demanded.
There are certain older properties with rather cramped and
poorly lighted accommodation which cannot be further improved
without major structural alterations. In these cases good management
results in satisfactory conditions.
It should be comforting for the public to know that conditions
in tood premises are improving all the time, and are probably as good
as anywhere in the country.