[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster County Borough.

  • Doncaster (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1894
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Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    removal of all such refuse, at frequent short intervals, is a necessity. Dr. Wheater strongly advised the lessening of many of the old, large, ash-pits, and this advice has been, and is still further being, acted upon, and other alterations have been made to lessen any cause of complaint from the existing ash-pits. The Sanitary Committee have repeatedly considered the best means of dealing with the houses in French Gate, which were condemned as unhealthy, and it is their desire to replace these old and badly arranged houses with new streets and houses, built after the requirements of the new Bye-laws. Foui additional houses were reported as unfit to Dwelling occupy, one has since been altered and allowed to be again inhabited. The requirement of the new Bye-laws, that a portion of the yard surface and open space, near to new houses, is to be paved or asphalted, is one which, I hope, the owners of many old houses may be induced to carry out. To have a clean, dry surface, close to the house is a better sanitary state than many of the sodden waste pieces, which are not gardens, but only receive so much of the household refuse. I hope the Committee will not overlook the subject previously discussed, namely—the need for better accomodation for nightly lodgers. For their own sake, and especially considering their liability to introduce infection into the town, there is need for all the requirements of our Bye-laws, and some of the existing houses are ill adapted to receive lodgers.