[Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Hitchin U.D.C.

  • Hitchin (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1956
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Credit: [Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Hitchin U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT of the SENIOR PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTOR FOR THE TEAR 1956 To the Chairman and Members of the Council. Mrs. Swinburne .and Gentlemen, I have pleasure in presenting my fifteenth Annual Report upon the work carried out by the Public Health Department during the year ending Dec- ember 31st, 1956, The Department functioned throughout the year minus one Additional Public Health Inspector and the amount of work carried out in connection with the new Pood Hygiene Regulations, 1955, which came into operation at the begin- ning of 1956, was negligible. The routine inspections of shops and factories also suffered. It is hoped, however, that with a full complement of inspectors, 1957 will see an improvement on the good standards of food hygiene operating in food premises prior to 1956* A further thirty-six houses were inspected and reported upon to the Housing Committee as unfit for humna habitation and, with the exception of eight houses where the owners had given written undertakings to demolish on obtaining vacant possession, it was decided to deal with the houses by the making of in- dividual demolition orders in accordance with Section 11, Housing Act, 1936. I again express my thanks to the staff for their valuable assistance, and to all the Council’s officials for their continued co-operation. I am, Your obedient servant, N. HOLT Senior Public Health Inspector, June, 1957