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

  • High Wycombe (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1955
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    better compensation will be available for owner/occupiers in future Clearance Areas. The Public Inquiry into Brook Street (No. 1 Area) having been concluded, it now remains for the Clearance Areas Development Committee to decide which areas are to be given priority in the future. AIR POLLUTION The Clean Air Bill, which is now being considered by Parliament, has created a considerable amount of interest both in Public and Local Authorities, and is also causing some concern in the furniture trade. Concern that prohibition of the burning of wood waste will be forthcoming is not surprising when, according to the trade, 70% of wood used goes to waste. Your Officers are, however, convinced that this waste can be disposed of by burning without undue nuisance, providing suitable apparatus is installed and controlled. Smoke, however, is not the sole cause of air pollution, although it is the principal cause of “ smog.” The smoke nuisance within the Borough is minute when compared with some areas, but smoke, grit and dust can and should be absent from the atmosphere. Your Officers, given the full co-operation of those who are likely to cause such nuisances, will endeavour to ensure better atmospheric con- ditions than those at present existing. FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1938 (a) The inspection of foodstuffs was carried out in the normal manner and the following is a list of the foodstuffs condemned during the year :— Beans, 28 tins Beetroot, 1 tin Carrots, 6 tins Cheese, 578 lbs. Cheese Spread, 19 pkts. Chocolate, 14 cartons Cream, 10 tins Fish, 34 stone 11 lbs. Fish, 45 tins Fish Cakes, 12 lbs. Frozen Egg, 4 tins Fruit, 453 tins Fruit Juice, 1 tin Fruit Salad, 14 tins Ground Almonds, 5 tins Ham, 369 lbs. Jam, 13 tins Meat, 197 tins Meat, 1,638 lbs. Milk, 146 tins Peas, 70 tins Rabbit, 70 lbs. Salad Cream, 24 jars Sandwich Spread, 3 bottles Sausages, 6 lbs. Soup, 15 tins Spaghetti, 2 tins Tomatoes, 216 tins Tomato Sauce, 1 tm Various Foodstuffs, 236 tins Vegetables, 5 tins Welsh Rarebit, 1 tin (b) The usual wide variety of foods was sampled for analysis by the Public Analyst and, as will be seen from the following table, all found to be genuine. The chemical composition of food and the labelling of food sold within the Borough was therefore quite satisfactory. Nevertheless, your Officers endeavour to seek out that which is new or unusual in order to protect the public as far as possible from food which is labelled misleadingly, to which there have been unlawful additions, or which is not of the nature, substance or quality demanded.
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