[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Swinton & Pendlebury Borough.

  • Swinton and Pendlebury (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Swinton & Pendlebury Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sanitary circumstances Very little material change has occured in the sanitary circumstances of the area during the past few years, and I346 was no exception to this order. The water supply of Swinton and Pendlebury is received from the Manchester Corporation Waterworks and that for Clifton from the Bolton Corporation. Both supplies are kept under constant super¬ vision and are generally satisfactory in quality and quantity. A classified statement of the work of the Sanitary In¬ spectors is givon in Table XIV, XV, and XVIII, from which it will be soon that IO78 dwelling houses wore inspectod undor tho Public Health or Housing Acts during the year, 22(>] visits boing paid for this pur¬ pose. 81b complaints wore invostigatod, resulting in J\2 notices be¬ ing served requiring various works to be carried out. -20 houses in respect of which notices had been served by the department were render¬ ed fit for habitation during the year. HOUSING 75 dwelling houses were erected during l^1^, of which 35 were prefabricated dwellings erected in the Moorside Ward. Five dwelling houses wore rendered incapable of boing habitated and/or de¬ molished during the year. Details of the position with regard to Housing are given in Tables XII, XIIA, and XVII. INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD SUPPLIES The inspection and supervision of food and mi ksupplies within the Borough wore carried 'out with considerable tho roughness dur¬ ing the year. All promises concerned with the sale and/or oroduction of food were regularly inspected, 1773 such inspections Deing carried out in I546. Details of inspections aro provided in Table XV. Considerable co-operation has been obtains: between the department and local shop-koopers concerning tho sale of food suspect¬ ed to bo unfit for human consumption. Table XIX gives particulars of the quantities of various foods condemned during tho ysar. Regular samples of food and drugs were taken during 1^46 and of 6o formal,and 68 informal samples taken, 3 formal and 4 informal were found to be adulterated. Appropriate action was taken in each instance. The milk supply of the Borough is subjec:od to bacter¬ iological and biological tests, tho results of which arc shown in Tab¬ les XX, and XXI, and it will be observed that the milk supply is on tho whole satisfactory.