[Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Loughborough Borough.

  • Loughborough (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1954
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    meant a great increase in the work of meat inspection, and entails a considerable amount of evening and week-end duty for the Sanitary Inspectors. The details of the findings at the inspections shew that this work requires an ever watchful eye if the public are to be assured of a supply of wholesome meat. With the coming into operation on August 30th of the Housing Repairs and Rents Act 1954? the resumption of slum clearance on a more substantial scale has become possible. The abolition of some 880 houses in the next 13 years is envisaged, though the programme must necessarily depend upon the number of new houses that can be built in the period. The power now given to local authorities to acquire houses in slum clearance areas and to retain them until such time as they can be dealt with, has made the procedure more flexible, but it must be emphasised that the objective is to secure the demolition of unfit property as soon as possible, and that postponement can be justified only so long as this objective cannot be achie.ved. In conclusion I should like to thank the Health Committee for their support during the year, Mr.Healey, Chief Sanitary Inspector, to whom I am indebted for much of the work of compiling this Report, and all the members of the staff of the Department for their willing co-opera¬ tion during the year. I am, Your obedient Servant, R. CAUTLBY HOLDERNESS 3.