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Delivery of environmental health services to Ducats informal settlement
Author(s)
Sompani, Thozamile Matthews
Date Issued
2003
Type
Thesis
Publisher
Cape Technikon
Abstract
This study provides information on the provision of environmental health
services to informal housing settlements by local authorities.
A standard for Environmental Health Service delivery according to
Government policies and legislation has been provided. Actual
environmental health services delivered to Ducats informal settlement at
the time (1992), have been compared to the services that should have
been delivered by law.
Baseline data have been compiled by means of questionnaires, in order
to assist the different levels of government in addressing the housing and
environmental health needs of the Ducat community.
The nature of Environmental Health and the history of informal housing,
more specific that of the Ducat informal housing settlement, have been
determined.
Limited environmental health services were rendered to informal housing
settlements occupying land illegally during 1992. These environmental
health services were limited to basic sanitation, water supply and refuse
removal. Only pit latrines or bucket latrines were required as a means of
sanitation, tanks for water supply and skips for the disposal of waste.
Amatola Regional Services Council however rendered all the
environmental health services required.
Other environmental health aspects such as pest control, communicable
disease control, air pollution control, radiation, occupational health
issues, temperature extremes, lighting, ventilation, noise, social
environment, food and meat hygiene were not required.
This study has provided a set of Government policies and legislation,
which should be considered in rendering environmental health services
for housing in future.
Uncertainty of the past decade, about rendering of Environmental Health
services to people occupying land illegally, still persists. The Municipal
Structures Act, 117 of 1998 requires the rendering of Environmental
Health services by local authorities, but it does not state whether these
services should be rendered to people occupying land illegally as well.
Since this has been the biggest restriction in providing environmental
health services in the past, it is recommended that Government address
this uncertainty.
services to informal housing settlements by local authorities.
A standard for Environmental Health Service delivery according to
Government policies and legislation has been provided. Actual
environmental health services delivered to Ducats informal settlement at
the time (1992), have been compared to the services that should have
been delivered by law.
Baseline data have been compiled by means of questionnaires, in order
to assist the different levels of government in addressing the housing and
environmental health needs of the Ducat community.
The nature of Environmental Health and the history of informal housing,
more specific that of the Ducat informal housing settlement, have been
determined.
Limited environmental health services were rendered to informal housing
settlements occupying land illegally during 1992. These environmental
health services were limited to basic sanitation, water supply and refuse
removal. Only pit latrines or bucket latrines were required as a means of
sanitation, tanks for water supply and skips for the disposal of waste.
Amatola Regional Services Council however rendered all the
environmental health services required.
Other environmental health aspects such as pest control, communicable
disease control, air pollution control, radiation, occupational health
issues, temperature extremes, lighting, ventilation, noise, social
environment, food and meat hygiene were not required.
This study has provided a set of Government policies and legislation,
which should be considered in rendering environmental health services
for housing in future.
Uncertainty of the past decade, about rendering of Environmental Health
services to people occupying land illegally, still persists. The Municipal
Structures Act, 117 of 1998 requires the rendering of Environmental
Health services by local authorities, but it does not state whether these
services should be rendered to people occupying land illegally as well.
Since this has been the biggest restriction in providing environmental
health services in the past, it is recommended that Government address
this uncertainty.
Additional information
Thesis (MTech (Environmental Health))--Cape Technikon, 2003
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