[Report 1971] / Medical Officer of Health, Keighley Borough.

  • Keighley (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1971
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Credit: [Report 1971] / Medical Officer of Health, Keighley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The constant efforts of the public health inspectors to improve the general standards of food hygiene in shops and cafes have continued to bear fruit. It is regrettable that it is still not a general practice for the coding of perishable foods to be done in such a manner as to be intelligible both to the public and to the members of the staff. The important connection of the Chief Public Health Inspector and the Keighley Technical College on food hygiene continued. It is pleasing to observe that the smoke control programme was able to recommence with the confirmation of the Riddlesden and Morton No. 8 Area and that the past shortage of solid smokeless fuels is not likely to ever recur. It is strange that while we are nearing success in making Keighley a smokeless town we would seem to be powerless to prevent people from polluting their own lungs by tobacco smoke and in consequence damaging their health irretrievably. Only when tobacco smoking is regarded as anti-social by the general public can we hope for success with the young people. Slum Clearance in the Borough is now nearing completion and both local and national emphasis is now on the rescue and modernisa- tion of the existing housing stock. During the last 20 years some 2,500 houses have been demolished and over 3,500 improvement grants awarded. Only isolated pockets of unfit houses now remain to be dealt with. The section on co-ordination and co-operation between the local authority and the hospital service has been enlarged. It will be seen from this that we have already developed an excellent system of col- laboration at all levels in both the health visiting, home nursing and midwifery services. Nevertheless there is much more to be done so that in 1974 we may be able to present to the new Area Health Boards an efficiently functioning community nursing service. V. P. McDONAGH, Medical Officer of Health. Public Health Department, 3 Bow Street, Keighley. Telephone: Keighley 2244/5