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SANITARY ADMINISTRATION.
ANNUAL REPORT
of
THE SANITARY INSPECTOR
1950
Public Health Department,
Municipal Offices,
New Malden.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Maiden and Coombe,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour and pleasure to submit my thirty-first
Annual Report of work done and matters of interest concerning
the Sanitary Department.
The year under review has passed more easily administratively.
My deputy Mr. Wood and Mr. Bowskill, both of
whom came in 1949 have settled down to their duties and this
has enabled a good year's work to be accomplished. Much of
this was concentrated on visits to premises where food is sold
or prepared, in an endeavour to obtain a high standard of
hygiene at these places. There are differences of opinion as to
the best methods to be employed in achieving this. Some
advocate courses of lectures to all food handlers ; others favour
instruction by means of pamphlets. In some areas Food Hygiene
Committees have been set up who issue certificates or diplomas
to those traders reaching certain standards. The display of these
in the shop windows of those traders who have gained them
indicates to the purchasing public that the conditions, under
which food sold there is prepared, have been officially approved.
Districts differ and what may be successful in one may prove
of little value in another. My course of action has been guided
by the conviction that, in an area such as this, individual approach
is the method most likely to produce the best results
and, I feel this has been borne out by experience. The dirty
or careless food handler has little or no interest in lectures or