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Districts were asked to co-operate in the matter. At the
meeting of the Committee held on November 16th it was
resolved that the whole of Greenford and Perivale parishes
be included in the scheme, and it was agreed that the width
of "through roads" should be fixed at not less than 60 feet,
recently reduced to 50 feet.
New roads, shown on the Surveyor's map, were provisionally
agreed upon.
The Committee is still persevering in their arduous work
preparatory to applying to the Local Government Board
for permission to prepare a scheme.
Workshops, Work-places, etc.
By referring to the Special Form of the Home Office
attached to this Report, it will be seen that we have very
little to do under this heading, most of the duties being under
the supervision of the Inspector of Factories I may mention,
however, that during the month of April, an outbreak of
lead poisoning occurred at the Purex Lead Works. These
cases were not notified to the Home Office as they should have
been by the medical attendants, and subsequent to a visit
of an inspector several notifications were sent to me under
the misapprehension that the notification was to be made
as in the case of an ordinary scheduled infectious disease.
I believe there are very few general medical practitioners
aware of this provision in the Factory and Workshop Act.
In this case neither the medical attendant at the factory
nor the factory surgeon appeared to do so, as they both sent
the notification to me. The Home Office subsequently
took legal action in the matter.
C.—Sanitary Administration of the District.
1.—The Sanitary Inpector is also Surveyor and Rate
Collector. As Inpector he has chiefly been engaged in attending
to complaints of nuisances such as are generally found
in rural districts, e.g., the pollution of water courses and
ditches, offensive pig sties, the inspection of cow sheds, etc.