[Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, County of the Soke of Peterborough.

  • Peterborough (England). County Council.
Date:
1917
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Credit: [Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, County of the Soke of Peterborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the Barnaolt Rural' District 70 houses ware reported on and 100 inspections were r.iado. Defects were found in eleven and rectified » 1 t innthroo. Ho c'lcainr_orders were no,do. COHHOIT LODGING) HOUSED. Ten xrere on the register at the beginning of the year. All are situated in the City of Peterborough. One esto.blish3.iont van closed during the year. On the whole the premises are satisfactorily hept. Ono cautionary letter was sent and 69 visits wore raid. Houses let in Lodgings. Twelve arre registered ahd 20 visits wore paid* The houses wore found to ho sat&ofactor*. SLAUtNITCPJIOTJ; Alb. The number of g 1 angh terhoi.>jqs has diminished. There are no - only 1G in the City as compared with 64 last -oar. -ill even are si tut-ted in the Rural Districts. Hr 3©don remarhs that the olaurJitorhbusen have boon Irept as well as can be expoc ted but not up to the pro-war standard. In only ono of the Peterborough slaughterhousos ban there been considerable neglect and in this one constant vi fits - / 193 in all - ware raid. 5G4 visits were -aid to the remaining 17, Mr Sedan reports that the following was the number of animals Hilled. locallv:- Leasts, Sheep. p- <yQ ► v w iJf.J 1017 2, 0753 Pigs. * In the Barnacl: Rural District 18 inspections were made of the throe \ slaughterhouses, nuisances were abated in three. No mention is made in the Peterborough Rural District reports as •» regards the condition of the r,laught©rhouseo, which is a matter for regret as a ^ory condidorable portion of the meat supplied to T.' the City is slaughtered at Nowar]:. IITCP ICTIOr OP IIDaT- AND FOOD. Hr Dad on report ■, that during the year SO beasts, 4 heifers and 4 / oow3 were surrendered on account of generalized, tuberculosis and wore entirely destroyed. The forequarters of throe beasts nro also surrendered for the sane reason. Two pigs were surrendered for tuberculosis and. two for erysi- >class* One shoop r o carcase, -four pigs fne\ \tji> ) / / '■ -1. ■ . . . ...