[Report 1911] / Medical Officer of Health, Burton-upon-Trent County Borough.

  • Burton upon Trent (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1911
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Credit: [Report 1911] / Medical Officer of Health, Burton-upon-Trent County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    am pleased to be able to report that a great many owners have readily complied with suggestions made by this Depart- ment for improving the sanitary condition of their property, especiallv in the direction of the conversion of privies and pail closets to the water ^carriage system, and that in no case has it been necessary to institute leg'al proceedings to enforce compliance with the notices served. The total number of inspections made by the staff during the past year was 8,114 ; of these 1,435 were house- to-house inspections, 1,062 re inspections to premises to ascertain if notices served had been complied with, 1,409 visits to slaughterhouses, and 689 visits re infectious disease. BAKEHOUSES.—There are at the present time 35 bakehouses in use which come under the definition of a workshop ; in addition there are in the Borough four bake- houses where mechanical power is employed—these for the purpose of the Factory and Workshops Act, 1901, being factories. All the above have been regidarly inspected during the year, 87 inspections having been made, and the whole of the bakehouses have been limewashed in accordance with the requirements of the Act. COWSHEDS, DAIRIES, AND MILKSHOPS.—The i foil owing' table gives the number of persons who are registered under the Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops Order
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