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GENERAL PROVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES
FOR THE AREA
New Legislation
(1) Sutton and Cheam Corporation Act 1951. This Act
received Royal Assent on the 1st August 1951. Apart from varying
the terms upon which the sewage from certain areas Is disposed
of by the Corporation, the Act confers further powers In regard
to lands and makes further and better provisions for the health,
local government finance and Improvement of the Borough.
Chief among the public health provisions are powers In
connection with public sewers and drains, closet accommodation,
nuisance from domestic chimneys, nuisances from tipping of refuse,
smoke from Industrial furnaces, discharge of steam waste gas,
noise nuisance, offensive trades and nuisance from pigeons etc.
Further powers are conferred with regard to food storage
accommodation In dwelling houses, the slaughter of animals otherwise
than for human consumption, registration of hawkers of food
and their premises, the manufacture of Inedible fat and the
making of byelaws as to meat for feeding animals. The powers
relating to Infectious diseases Include entry Into premises In
cases of notifiable disease, the furnishing of Information by
occupiers of premises In cases of notifiable disease, restriction
on attendance at schools or places of assembly, the exclusion of
children from entertainments, stopping employment to prevent the
spread of disease and the prohibition of Infectious tuberculous
persons from handling food.
Filthy or verminous premises or articles are further
controlled and an amendment to Section 93 of the Public Health
Act, 1936, makes it possible to speed up the procedure necessary
to secure the repair of defective premises.
(2) national Assistance (Amendment) Act, 1951. This Is an
Act to amend Section 47 of the National Assistance Act, 1948 so
as to expedite removal of persons In urgent need of care and
attention to a hospital or to residential accommodation, by
application to a Court of Summary Jurisdiction or to a Justice
of the Peace.
(3) The Public Health (Leprosy) Regulations, 1951. The
regulations require medical practitioners to notify cases of
Leprosy directly to the Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of
Health. This departure from normal practice Is designed to meet
the special conditions arising from this disease.
(4) The Puerperal Pyrexia Regulations, 1951,. The definition
has been revised so as to conform with the advance of modern
therapy. Medical Practitioners have received copies of the
regulations.
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