[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Caernarvonshire Combined Sanitary Districts (Bangor City, Conway Borough, Bethesda U.D.C., Betws y Coed U.D.C., Llandudno U.D.C., Llanfairfechan U.D.C., Penmaenmawr U.D.C., Nant Conway R.D.C., Ogwen R.D.C., Caernarvon Borough, Pwllheli Borough, Criccieth U.D.C., Portmadoc U.D.C., Gwyrfai R.D.C., Lleyn R.D.C.).

  • Caernarvonshire Combined Sanitary Districts.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Caernarvonshire Combined Sanitary Districts (Bangor City, Conway Borough, Bethesda U.D.C., Betws y Coed U.D.C., Llandudno U.D.C., Llanfairfechan U.D.C., Penmaenmawr U.D.C., Nant Conway R.D.C., Ogwen R.D.C., Caernarvon Borough, Pwllheli Borough, Criccieth U.D.C., Portmadoc U.D.C., Gwyrfai R.D.C., Lleyn R.D.C.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Committee for each of the four Counties ; the question of several additional whole-time Female Health Visitors; Annual Medical Examinations ((Tuberculin-testing for Humans?). Testing Milk and Cattle for Tuber- cular infection ; Dr. Wade’s Report on the High Mortality among Quarry- men. A Later Investigation by Drs. Sutherland and Bryson. A third Investigation by Dr. Chalke for the Welsh (Memorial) Tuberculosis Associa- tion. A combination of methods necessary to fight Tuberculosis. Dual notification (Provisional and Positive) suggested. Tuberculosis and Housing (see above). See below—Disinfection. The Clement Davies Inquiry.-—The Government Committee of Inquiry (Mr. Clement Davies, M.P., K.C., and Dr. Coutts), which held sittings in the spring of the present year (1938) in various parts of Wales, including an e'xtra sitting at Caernarvon (on the suggestion, in the first instance of your Southern Medical Officer—E. Lloyd Owen), should find a prominent place in this list of Investigations into the abnormal incidence of Tuber- culosis in the Gwyrfai Rural District all through the years. (6) Disinfection in Tuberculosis and Fevers.—(a) Of Premises. (6) Of Articles of Bedding, clothing, &c. Steam Disinfectors in existing Institutions can only be used to a very limited extent for outside cases—5, 10, 15, 20, 30, &c., miles away. How can intermediate, let alone distant districts like South Caernarvonshire, Deudraeth, Hiraethog, Geirionydd, etc., be served? The question of Portable Disinfectors and extra Disinfecting Stations. The question of a special Disinfecting Officer or Officers for disinfecting after Fever, for Tuberculosis (periodically during life, as well as after departure to Sanatorium and after Death), for disinfecting Schools, Halls, etc. The King Edward Memorial Association have mooted the question of Travelling Disinfecting Vans, with Disinfecting Officer. (7) Fevers. — («) Councils who have not yet made provision for Smallpox Isolation ; {b) Councils who have not yet made provision for other Fever Isolation ; (c) Immunisation against Smallpox, Diphtheria, &c. ; [d) Should Measles, Whooping Cough, Chicken Pox, &c., be made notifiable? [e] See Disinfection above. (8) Meat.—Establishment of additional Public Abattoirs ; further adoption of Humane Methods ; should not the Government insist on uniformity in the method of slaughtering, and on treating sheep and lambs and pigs like other animals ? Registration of Slaughtermen. Meat certificates for Sanitary Inspectors. Farmers slaughtering on licensed premises. Farm- ers’ and Butchers’ opposing view-points. Government should take con- trol in the interest of Consumers. (9) Water Supplies.-—Privately and Publicly-owned Water Undertakings should be kept under observation and Analyses (chemical and bacteriol- ogical) be called for at sufficiently frequent intervals. Every Sanitary Authority (alone or in combination with one or more others) should have a qualified Water Engineer in their Service. All hamlets, as far as is possible, and smaller collections of houses, without a piped water supply, should have schemes of such provided for them, both for the sake of pure drinking water and for hosts of other purposes, including acting as a necessary preliminary to a Drainage system. (10) Drainage and Sewerage.—Following on, or concurrently with, a Water Scheme, such districts should be provided with a Drainage System, and all Dry Closets be converted into Water Closets. (11) Public Scavenging.—Similarly, Public Scavenging Schemes should be universally extended to every hamlet, and, as far as possible, to every smaller collection of houses.