[Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough.

  • Newcastle-under-Lyme (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1962
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Credit: [Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CARAVAN SITES AND CONTROL OF DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1960 Work done under this Act during the year was reported to me by the Chief Public Health Inspector as follows :— Tents, Vans and Sheds Number of vans existing at the end of the year :— (a) 1 Permanent Site ... ... ... 44 (b) 3 Other Sites ... ... ... 6 Number of vans, etc., in possession of owner/occupiers 44 Number of visits and inspections made ... ... 178 ERADICATION OF BED BUGS Particulars of action taken is as follows :— Table 51. COUNC] [L Houses Private Houses Inspec¬ tions Infes¬ ted Dis-Infested Inspec¬ tions Infes¬ ted Dis-Infested HCN Other Insecticides HCN Other Insecticides 63 3 — 3 18 — — — SHOP SANITATION Number of Sanitary visits made to shops Number of nuisances or defects found Number of nuisances or defects remedied ... OFFENSIVE TRADES Number recorded as being within the Borough Fat Melter, etc. ... 6 Tripe Boilers ... 1 Rag and Bone Dealers 1 Bone Boiler ... I Number of new offensive trades established Number of inspections made Nuisances or defects found Nuisances or defects remedied 35 6 6 9 Nil 7 SANITARY ACCOMMODATION The following is a summary of the various outdated types of sanitary convenience existing in the Borough at the end of the year :— No. of houses served by waste water closets ... 76 No. of houses served by hand-flushed water closets ... 35 No. of houses and premises served by privies (36) ... 26 No. of houses and premises served by pail closets (43) 35 No. of houses and premises served by ash pits (2) ... 2 Particulars of conversions made during the year :— Privies converted to water closets ... ... — Pail closets converted to water closets ... ... — Waste water closets converted to flushed water closets 7 Hand-flushed closets provided with cisterns ... — Standard dustbins replaced or provided through the Local Authority (excluding new houses erected) ... 1625
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