[Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Somerset County Council.

  • Somerset (England). County Council.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Somerset County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fever, 1 ; erysi[)elas, 7 ; j)ner})eral fever, 0 ; tuberculosis, 51 ; ojihthalniia neona¬ torum, 0. Deaths from measles, 4; \vlK)0})ing cough, 1. Jdemises disinfected after death or removal of case of tuberculosis. Isolation Hospital.—Hospital in district belonging to Bath City to which cases are sent. Water Supply.—No fresh supplies installed. Drainage and Sewage Disposal.—Joint sewerage sclieme for Monkton Combe, Bath- ford, Batheaston, Bathamjiton, Swainswick and Claverton. Freshford and Pease- down drainage schemes in liand. Public Scavenging.—At Batham])ton, Batheaston, Bathford and Weston. Housing.^—Houses inspected, 240 ; houses closed, 8. Shortage of Houses.—At Camerton, Dunkerton and Wellow. The demand in these ])laces is being met by private enterprise. Milk Supply.—Dairies, cowsheds and milk purveyors on the register, 114; cow- keepers on the register, 105 ; no. of inspections made during the 3ear, 131. Meat Inspec'itons.—No. of slaughter-houses, 13; licensed, 2; registered, 11. The slaughter-houses are small and unsatisfactoiy but the}^ are not often used— the meat supply comes ])rincipally from Bristol or Bath. Carcasses and offal of five oxen were destroyed as unfit for human consumption. Factories and Workshops.—No. registered, 3 ; bakehouses, 14 ; outworkers—no lists received. Local Government Board Inquiries.—In May for sanction to borrow £17,000 for carrying out the sewage scheme for parishes round Bath. Adopted Acts.—Infectious Diseases Prevention Act, 1800, and Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1800, certain sections. Improvements required.—Slaughter-house bye-laws for all the district. Improvements recorded as carried oltt in 1013 Report.—Progress with three o sewerage schemes. BRIDGWATER. RURAL DISTRICT. M.O.H., Dr. WiLBERFORCE Thompson. Sanitary Inspector, Richard Popham. Area, in acres, 85,07(). Copulation.—Census 1011, 18,203. No. OF Inhabited Houses, 4,373. Estimated to middle of 1013, 18,203. New houses erected during the year, 8.