[Report 1912] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashby-de-la-Zouch R.D.C.

  • Ashby-de-la-Zouch (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1912
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Credit: [Report 1912] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashby-de-la-Zouch R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT OF SURVEYOR AND INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES, FOR THE Year, 1912. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I have pleasure in submitting to your consideration my report upon and works carried out during the year just ended of 1912. Building Works and Flans. During the year, thirty-three Plans were deposited for the Council’s approval ; seven of which were disapproved, but were afterwards re-deposited and approved. The Plans represented thirteen Dwelling-Houses, two Shops, one School Technical Workshop, one Factory Extension at the Lount Works, three Cow Sheds, two Slaughter-Houses, two Sculleries, and seventeen miscellaneous erections, additions, &c. During the year, the following Buildings have been com- pleted, viz., ten Dwelling-Houses (one Warehouse, Workshop, and Chimney Stack, these being extensions at Lount Works), one Technical School Workshop, three Sculleries, nine additions to existing Dwelling-Houses, fourteen Piggeries, and nine miscellaneous Buildings. Trades, &c. With the exception of the extension of the Lount Pot Works, no additional Works or new Trades have been commenced in your district. Existing Properfie.^. Improvements to old properties continue slowly, and works do not progress so rapidly as I should like to see them. Forty-three existing Houses have been completely re-drained, properly trapped, ventilated, &c. Public Works, &c. With the exception of a short length of Sewer and two Man- Holes, in the village of Chilcote, no other Works of this nature have been carried out. A public Water Supply from the mains of the Coalville Urban District Council, has been provided for New Swannington, but the property owners do not seem to be over anxious to take the supply, only four Houses have as yet been connected to the Mains.
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