[Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Coleford U.D.C.
- Coleford (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1914
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Coleford U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Tliere are no fixed asfi-])its eitlicr in coml)ination with privieB or alone. Refuse is either usod on tlie gardens or collected in boxes and buckets, ^^•luclJ are emptied by tlie Scavenger. Alovable ash- bins, with proper cewerings, are used in 24 cases, Ifi new ones having been substituted for other receptacles during the year. Two houses have been newly connected with the sewer and three new nail closets constructed. Four notices were served to empty privy vaults, and two privy vaults have been abolished. No changes have been made in the arrangements for the collection or disijosal of refuse during the year. I have again to deplore that the Sanitaiw work of the Town has been much impeded by the resignation of the Inspector, who felt himself unequal to the work. My own illness, too, for the first three months of the year, prevented my satisfactorily com- pleting the house to house inspection for the 1909 Act. The number of inspections made by myself under the 1909 Act were 65, and the Sanitaiw Ins])ector reports having inspected 229 houses generally. The number of houses for which notices were rendered necessary for which notices were served under the Housing and Town Planning Act of 1909 was 70, all of which were remedied. The number of notices served under other sections of the Public Health Act was 28, and of the houses in respect of which the notices were given, 20 were remedied. Seven houses were found to be unfit for human habitation, and of these five were remedied without closing orders. Three representations were made to the Council. Two closing orders were made, and one of these houses was made habitable after the service of the orders. No demolition oi'ders were made and no houses have been demolished. Three cases of overcrowding were reported, but on notice these were abated. Six liouses have been cleansed on notice. ]lui*ing inspections the following defects have been noted by the Ins])ector and myself:-—■ 1. Arrangements for iireventing contamination of water supply ... .4 2. Closet accommodation ... 8 h. Hrainage 15 4. Condition of dwelling house with regard to light, free b}^ defective conditions was 98. The number of houses](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29119601_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
