I went to sfdph.org home page and under “our programs” clicked on “environmental health section”. In there I found categories of health services. The categories were body art, hazardous waste, hazardous materials, childhood lead prevention, noise, rodent, mosquitoes and other insects, massage, healthy housing, agriculture, water programs, air and smoking, and weights and measures.
The services that I was surprised to find were body art, noise, and massage. Body art makes sense as I write this but I thought that noise was taken care of by the police department. I remember a few years ago I was doing a ride along with my cousins’ girlfriend who is a police officer in Salinas, when she got a noise complaint call. We went to the house and at no time did she say, we should call the health department. So, noise was extremely surprising to me!
As the blog instructions say, SF does have a Department of the Environment known as SF environment. When I go to it, I found what I had already talked about previously.
Hi Rudi,
ReplyDeleteWow, what an awesome variation in environmental health services! I was surprised by the body art, too, and does not make much sense to me. Oh- is it around safe/clean needles? lol now I get it.
The noise could be more on prevention rather than addressing the issue/administering consequences like the police would do. Maybe the noise program looks at noise reduction and impact of noise on health.