[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Banbury Borough.

  • Banbury (Oxfordshire, England). Borough Council.
Date:
1955
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    ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF SANITARY INSPECTOR FOR THE YEAR 1955o To the Worshipful the Mayor, the Aldermen and Councillors of the Banbury Borough Council. MR. MAYOR. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I have the pleasure of submitting to you my tenth annual report which records the work, of your Sanitary Inspectors for the year 1955 and, in doing so, I have again to report good progress in all aspects of our many duties. The work, carried out by my section of your Public Health Department is not of a spectacular nature - in fact much of it is quite the reverse - but I feel that the records presented in this report demonstrate the careful watch which is kept on the environment and the food supplies of the inhabitants of the Borough Much of our work is of a routine character and is quite unknown to many of those for whose benefit it is perfon’ied but I think it is still true to say that, without a satisfactory and efficient environmental health service, the general health of the town, and the country, would not be so satisfactory as it is today, in other words, for healthy living it is still necessary to ensure pure water, clean air, healthy housing and working conditions, freedom from infection and disease together with a pure and unadulterated food supply and it is to these ends that the work recorded in this report has been carried out,. The main emphasis of our duties during 1955 was again on housing work and responsibilities connected with the supervision of food and food premises but, in spite of these primary calls upon our time, it was possible to maintain our usual routine work in other directions,, in connection with housing work, the completion of the special survey with respect to proposed slum clearance and the preparation of the five year programme accounted for a good deal of time but it was possible also, as shown later in this report, to resume routine housing inspection for the repair and reconditioning of houses which are expected to remain in use for a great many years,, Meat and food inspection, the sampling of milk and ice cream, and the supervision of food premises were other duties which received considerable attention whilst the inspection of van dwellings, the supervlsloi of drainage work and the routine inspec- tion of various premises such as shops, factories and the like were given their customary attention. The public slaughterhouse, established in July, 1954, functioned most satisfactorily during the year and I am certain that the provision thus made by the Corporation is one which is of benefit to the town from the public health point of view. -19