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Environmental Sanitation Branch
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Ontario. Division of Environmental Sanitation
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The Environmental Sanitation Branch (originally named the Division of Environmental Sanitation) was created on 1 April, 1957 within the Ontario Department of Health replacing the former Division of Sanitary Engineering.
By the early 1960s the Branch was divided into the following sections: Public Health Engineering, Milk Control, Cemetery Administration, Local Sanitation Counselling, and Sanitary Inspector Training.
When the Department of Health reorganized in 1966, the Environmental Sanitation Branch was amalgamated with the Industrial Hygiene Branch to form the new Environmental Health Services Branch.
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The Environmental Sanitation Branch regulated environmental health in Ontario, including private water supplies, sewage and waste disposal, pasteurization, milk and food sanitation, summer camps, school water supply and sewerage approvals, refuse disposal, frozen food locker plants, slaughter houses, meat processing plants, and cemeteries. It also administered the Environmental Sanitation Training Centre and assisted and guided local boards of health in the enforcement of Eating Establishment Regulations and Swimming Pool Regulations.
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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, 1957-1966
RG 10 Inventory
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Archivist(s):
Marg McIntyre