[Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Stratford-upon-Avon Borough, Stratford-upon-Avon R.D.C., Shipston-upon-Stour R.D.C., Alcester R.D.C.

  • Stratford-upon-Avon (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1962
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Credit: [Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Stratford-upon-Avon Borough, Stratford-upon-Avon R.D.C., Shipston-upon-Stour R.D.C., Alcester R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOISE ABATEMENT ACT, 1960 During the year visits were made for the purpose of investigating noise com¬ plaints and to seek amelioration of the level of noise where the complaints made related to the background noise inevitably associated with running of certain commercial premises. The cause of such complaints arises from the running up and loading of motor vehicles and clinking of bottles in metal crates when being loaded up and off loaded with the ensuing noise being amplified in the stillness of early morning. It is obviously difficult to prescribe remedial measures to eradicate such background noise, and the noise from such a source could be held to be not a statutory noise nuisance capable of being abated by formal legal action under the Act. In respect of a continuous noise nuisance arising from the operation of an engineering factory close to residential property, after careful consideration, the Council approved the service of an abatement notice. This notice required the provision of a building with roof and walls of such construction and thick¬ ness as will ensure that the noise of the machinery operated inside the building shall cause no annoyance to occupiers of adjoining residential property. Alterna¬ tively, the owners of the factory should cease using any machinery which, when in operation or use, will be audible to persons present in adjoining residential property. A period of twelve months was given for the abatement of the nuisance. SLAUGHTERHOUSES AND MEAT INSPECTION A 100 per cent inspection was maintained of all animals slaughtered at the two slaughterhouses, and the condemned meat and offal disposed of through contractors. The total number of animals slaughtered showed a slight reduction over that of the previous two years. On the basis that one cattle unit represents one cattle beast or three calves or five sheep or two pigs, the average weekly throughput of the slaughterhouses was 248 cattle units. It is considered that 80 cattle units a week would in general be sufficient to serve a population of about 30,000 on the basis of populations consuming entirely home produced meat. Thus the slaughterhouses throughput is equivalent to what would be required to serve a town of a static population of about 90,000. The exchequer contribution to the Council towards expenses involved to carry out meat inspection duties to “ export ” meat for consumption outside the Borough for the financial year ended March 1962, was £355.
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