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Home Laundry
Service
Another important and valuable service provided by 'he
Borough is the service provided under Section 84 of the
Public Health Act, 1936, which enables the local authority
to cleanse, at their own expense, any filthy articles in order
to prevent injury to health. By this means the bed and personal
clothing of aged and incontinent persons can be laundered
after certification by the Public Health Inspector regarding
its filthy condition. During 1966, 98 persons were assisted and
10,566 articles were laundered.
Fertilizers and
Feeding Stuffs
Act, 1926
The Fertilizers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1926 requires the
satisfactory labelling or notification of the chemical constituents
of defined gardening requisites in order that purchasers
may know what they are buying.
The Chief and Deputy Chief Public Health Inspectors and
two Specialist Public Health Inspectors are designated officers
for these purposes and they made inspections and took eight
samples (6 of fertilizers and 2 of feeding stuffs) during the
review year. In the case of one sample of fertilizer the
nitrogen content was 0.10 per cent in excess of the prescribed
limit of variation and the vendors attention was drawn to this.
Factories and
Workshops
The local authority is clothed with powers to supervise the
sanitary circumstances obtaining in factories and workshops
but only in relation to the provision of suitable, sufficient and
satisfactory sanitary conveniences; separate for the use of, the
sexes and in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations
made under Section 11(2) of the Factories Act, 1961. This
Statute also enables the authority to supervise through the
Public Health Inspectors the sanitary circumstances under
which outwork is performed in domestic dwellings, particularly
with a view of preventing the spread of infectious diseases.
Various commodities are issued to women generally for
adapting which work would be uneconomical to carry out in
factories, especially appendages to clothing such as belts,
fasteners, buckles etc. which afford an opportunity to augment
the family income where the housewife is prevented from
working in, or unable to attend at the factory. Twice yearly
inspections are made and in general the conditions were
found to be very good in the 162 premises under supervision.
Details of the administration of the Act are contained in
Appendix 23.