Report to the Local Government Board on the sanitary circumstances of the Axbridge Rural District, Somerset, by Dr. Reginald Farrar.

  • Farrar, Reginald Anstruther, 1861-1921.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Report to the Local Government Board on the sanitary circumstances of the Axbridge Rural District, Somerset, by Dr. Reginald Farrar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2o 11 sitting-room. I found insufficient towels provided. Tliis lodg- ing-house should be put into thorough repair and provided with proper accommodation for washing. Ellen Unwin’s lodging-house, licensed for 26 lodgers, is struc- turally dilapidated, though not to the same extent as the former. The closet accommodation is very insufficient, consisting of a single ash privy for all the lodgers. The provision for washing consists merely of a small sink in the kitchen. Both the above lodging-houses have been much used recently by navvies employed on the construction of the Derwent Valley aqueduct. Dairies and Cowsheds.—There are 11 cowsheds and dairies in the north district and 89 in the south. I visited several cowsheds and found them properly limewaslied, and, in most instances, adequately lighted, ventilated, and drained, with good floors and sufficient cubic air-space. Both medical officers of health report that structural improvements have been recently carried out in several of the cowsheds in their respective districts. A considerable quantity of milk is sent from this district to various large towns, particularly Manchester. Cowsheds and dairies are regularly inspected. Slaughter houses.—There are 14 registered slaughter-houses in the north district and 18 in the south. I visited several of these and found them clean and properly limewaslied, but the premises are generally old and inconvenient, the flooring often irregular and in bad repair, and the drainage not infrequently defective. In some instances, as at Winster, Ashford, and Cromford, no water is laid on to the slaughter-house. At Bradwell I found butchers’ offal deposited on a manure tip. In Stoney Middleton I found a large quantity of butchers’ offal in a very offensive condition, and swarming with flies, deposited in a privy midden, 54 square feet in area, situate in a narrow lane with houses on both sides, and 10 yards from the window of a dairy. Two dogs were feeding on the offal. By-laws for the regulation of slaughter-houses were adopted in 1907. They are regularly inspected. Bakehouses.—There are 14 bakehouses registered in the north district and six in the south. These are all small retail bakehouses, in which no mechanical power is used. I did not inspect any of these. They are regularly inspected, and are reported by the medical 'officers of health as being clean and satisfactory. Provisions for dealing with Cases of l7ifections Disease.— There is no isolation hospital for cases of infectious disease other than small-pox. The Bakewell Rural District is one of the constituents of the Haddon Joint Hospital District, which was formed by order of the Derbyshire County Council, under the Isolation Hospitals Act, 1893, in April, 1897. The Haddon Joint Hospital District comprises the wdiole area of the Bakewell Union, including, besides the Bakewell Rural Sanitary District, the Urban Sanitary Districts of Matlock, Bakewell, Matlock Bath, North Darley, South Darley, and Baslow and Bubnell in
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