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taken by his Department in the County as a whole but has
been unable, this year, to break down the figures so as to
show the action actually taken in Feltham.
The Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations, 1959
One new distributor was registered and one ceased to
trade. At the end of the year the register contained details
of thirty-three distributors of milk and one dairy.
Ice Cream
Premises at which ice cream was sold continued to
receive regular attention. There were no registered manufacturers
of ice cream in this area.
There were no new registrations under Section 16 of the
Food and Drugs Act, 1955, and at the end of the year the
register contained details of thirty-six premises.
Twenty-two samples of ice cream were taken and submitted
to the Public Health Service Laboratory at Epsom.
Fourteen were placed in provision grade 1, two in grade 2
and six in grade 3. The poor results in the last group, all
from mobile vendors, were followed up and were mostly
isolated cases.
Proceedings were taken under Food Hygiene (General)
Regulations Nos. 26 and 28 with respect to a mobile ice
cream vendor and the operating company was fined a total
of £60 and ten guineas costs.
Clean Air
The Feltham Urban District (No. 3) Smoke Control
Order came into operation on 1st October, 1963. Under
the three Orders, 2,305 acres are now smoke controlled and
include 4,836 dwellings and 299 other premises. The Feltham
Urban District (No. 4) Order was confirmed at the end
of the year to come into operation on 1st October, 1964.
The programme provides for a new smoke control order
each year, embracing approximately 1,500 dwellings and for
the whole district to have been included by 1969.
Residents in the proposed Smoke Control Areas are
kept fully informed by visits to each house, by letters and
by the visits of the mobile exhibition of the Solid Smokeless
Fuels Federation, whose continued assistance I am glad to
acknowledge.
During the early part of the year, when solid fuel
generally was difficult to obtain and there were delivery
delays due to the severe weather conditions, there were many
complaints of shortage of smokeless fuel. From investigations
it appeared that some distributors were not offering