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Environmental Health Services Branch
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Ontario. Environmental Health Branch
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The Environmental Health Services Branch was created on July 1, 1966 within the Ontario Department of Health as a result of the amalgamation of the former Industrial Hygiene and Environmental Sanitation Branches. It formed part of the Public Health Division. It was known until 1967 as the Environmental Health Branch.
The Environmental Health Services Branch was divided into a number of units with responsibilities in the following areas: air pollution control, the Civil Service Employee Health Service, environmental health laboratories, occupational health, pesticides control, public health engineering, radiation protection and stuffed articles. In 1967 the Branch assumed responsibility for food protection service and in 1968 for health studies service.
The Environmental Health Services Branch ceased to exist in 1972 when the Department of Health was replaced with the Ministry of Health. The majority of its functions were transferred to the new Occupational Health Protection Branch. Responsibility formerly held by the Public Health Engineering Service for advising on the engineering aspects of septic tanks and other private waste systems was assigned to the newly formed Private Waste and Water Management Branch of the Ministry of the Environment.
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The Environmental Health Services Branch provided consultative and direct services to Ontario government agencies and industries in the control of environmental health hazards in the community and workplace. The branch regulated cemeteries and upholstered articles until 1968 when those functions were transferred to the Department of Financial and Commercial Affairs. The branch was responsible for air pollution control until 1969 when that function was transferred to the Department of Energy and Resources Management. They were responsible for pesticides and private sewage until 1971, when that function was transferred to the Department of the Environment.
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RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Annual reports of the Department of Health, 1966-1972
RG 10 Inventory
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Archivist(s):
Marg McIntyre