[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Stockport County Borough.

  • Stockport (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Stockport County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LINES FOR FUTURE ACTION. The Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health is required to “indicate directions for further consideration and action.” These have been already discussed in detail, and it only remains for me to briefly summarise as follows the various recommendations submitted to you :— (i) The consideration and adoption of a comprehensive scheme for the conversion of the midden-privy to the water-carriage system of disposal of refuse, and the abolition of Tips within the town. (2) The revision of the Bye-laws with respect to the construction of sanitary conveniences in connection with buildings. (8) The continuance and extension of your efforts to provide for the thorough cleansing and ventilation of the public sewers ; and the removal, as soon as it can be afforded, of the existing defective flagged or bricked sewers. (4) The general improvement of the housing of the working classes by the continued enforcement of existing legislation in that respect: and as regards new property, by entirely disallowing the erection of any further 'privies and by enforcing stricter compliance with the building bye¬ laws, especially those with regard to the drainage of subsoils, the asphalting or concreting of sites, and the provision of water-tight drain-joints. (5) The provision of additional hospital accommodation, to permit of the separate isolation of each of the more serious notifiable diseases and the erection of an unclimbable continuous barrier, 6ft. 6in. high, around the hospital grounds. Various other lines of sanitary progress might be indicated, e.g., the provision of a public abattoir, but being of secondary importance as com¬ pared with the foregoing recommendations, these matters will doubtless have for the present to stand aside. CHARLES PORTER, Medical Officer of Health.
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