[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Cockermouth U.D.C.

  • Cockermouth (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Cockermouth U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OFFENSIVE TRADES.—The llrui of Blood Driers whose licence expired on 1st May, 194U, again applied to the Council for a renewal and this was granted for another twelve months. There is still the Knacker and Fellmonger establishment In Waste Lane and visits of inspection continue to be made to ))oth concei’ns. SHOPS ACT, 1934. No special action under the provisions of the Shops Act, 1934, was taken. RATS AND MICE DESTRUCTION ACT, 1919. The Sanitary Inspector co-operates with officials (“Rodent Officers’’) of the County War Agricultural Executive Committee, who, undei’ contract, cari'y out rat disinfestation of the refuse tip by poison. Thiec sections of the sewei-age system of the town received systematic treatment for rats. Housing. The Housing shortage continues to be acute. The condemned houses that had previously been allowed to be occupied'were still tenanted. A house in St. Helens Street had to be vacated owing to the roof falling in ; pei inission was given to the elderly couple invobu'd to occupy a condemned house in Teetotal Yard, which had been ])reviouslv tenanted by an evacuee family. The Condemned house (in Marks Lane) which was occupied without permission in 1943 was still in occupation. A bungalow in Crown Inn Yard was condemned and a Demol- ition Order made, the tenant being rehoused in a Condemned house which had become vacant. By the end of the year, 1946:— 38 houses were in course of erection on the Windmill Lane Estate. 26 houses were in course of erection on the Yloor Estate. in houses were completed on the 'Windmill Lane Estate. 12 houses were completed on the 'WindmiU Lane Estate. 9 houses were built by private enterprise (for sale). The Council still has a long waiting list of applicants for tiici!' liouses.