[Report 1965] / Medical Officer of Health, Lakes U.D.C.

  • Lake District (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1965
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Credit: [Report 1965] / Medical Officer of Health, Lakes U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pests Act, 1949. Your District is covered by the South Westmorland Joint Pest Control Board. Regular visits are made to your refuse tips which seem to attract rather an undesirable number of rats. Boarding Kennels. Animal Boarding Establishments Act, 1963. One such place is on the register in your District. It was inspected and found to be satisfactory. Rent Restriction Acts. No action was taken during the year under the Rent and Mortgage Interest Restriction Acts, and any contraventions of Section 4 of the Housing Act, 1936, regarding rent book entries, were corrected informally. Smoke Abatement. Clean Air Act, 1956. No action was required. Public Mortuary and Post-mortem Room. Public Health Act, 1936. Section 198. Public mortuary and post-mortem examination facilities are now available by arrangement at Westmorland County Hospital, Kendal. Laboratory Services. Public Health Act, 1936. Section 196. The Public Health Laboratory Services at Preston and Carlisle provide the necessary facilities for most of our public health investi¬ gations. Compulsory Removal National Assistance Act, 1948-1951. Happily there was no need during 1965 to invoke the powers of this Act. Such cases are extremely distressing to deal with and the course of compulsory removal is reserved to meet the emergencies of a last resort when all other methods of help have failed. Sometimes it is very hard to decide what is really in the best interests of the patient.