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OMIC ONTIAC
Should consider plumbing,
building inspections
Dr . Frank Mills, Huron
County's mediCal officer of health
wants the, county to consider
setting up .a plumbing and bnild-
ing inspection department,
Many residents and con-
tractors have requested the
service from the health unit
office, Dr. Mills told the Feb-
ruary session of county council.
With 350 to 400 new homes going
up yearly in. Huron, he said, the
people paying the high prices
for such homes deserve some
sort of guarantee they are get-
ting the quality of services and
installations they are paying for.
With that many homes, Dr.
Mills said, you're talking about
an investment of between $8 mil-
lion and $10 million yearly for
home, and industrial construct-
ion in the county accounts for
another $6 million each year, he
said.
There are 11 subdivisions
under consideration in Huron and
approval has been granted for
nine of those, there is a de-
finite responsibility for the
county to protect these invest-
ments. Local plumbers indicate
ther e are a lot of "fly - by -
night plumbers" coming into the
county and doing a cheap job at
high prices, Dr. Mills said.With-
out a county inspection service,
he said, there is no standard for
such work to be judged on.
Questioned by Reeve Charles
Thomas of Grey Township about
the authority of the health unit
in the area of building and plumb-
ing inspections, Dr. Mills as-
sured him that once such a de-
partment was set, up, it would be
left to function on its own. plumb-
ing usually involves sanitation,
and poor sanitation involves
health, Dr. Mills said, so the
health unit .is interested in
seeing such a department estab-
lished in the county.
Dr. Mills- suggested to
council that a two-man depart-
ment could get' things going -
one for the north and one for the
south of the county. These two
county men could incorporate the
inspectors the municipalities Al- ready have, he said, because they
know the local situations. The
service would be for residential
construction only, not com -
mercial or agricultural..
An inspection fee of $100 for
the four-stage inspection service
was suggested by Dr. Mills.Reeve
William Elston of Morris Town-
ship suggested that many young
people building their own homes
Reeve Gerry Ginn of GoderiCh
- Township, calls for $324,562, an
increase of about $8,000 over the
1972 budget. Employees of the
unit, members. of the Canadian
Union of public Employees, have
settled an 18-month agreement
with the county which gives them
pay increases of between$ 800 and
$900.
It was suggested that another
health inspector be added to the
Staff since much of the time
spent by the inspectors on staff
new is spent in travelling from
one point in the county to an-
other,
couldn't afford professionals that
would do a job to meet inspection
standards.
Dr. Mills told him that part
of the department's service would
be complete literature on instal-
lation requirements and
standards that had to be met, and
that the young people could do
their own work if they wanted, as
long as they followed the required
standards. An inspection is good
insurance on the investment in-
volved in a. home, he said..
The health unit board's bud-
get. for 1973, as presented by
committee chairman, Deputy
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10—,THE akussELs PoSt MARCH 21, 1973
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