[Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Durham County Palatine / County Council.

  • Durham County Council
Date:
1919
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Credit: [Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Durham County Palatine / County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Medical Officer of Health for the Jarrow Urban District also complains of the unsuitability and inadequacy of the Isolation Hospital having regard to the size of the district. The chief faults he mentions are (1) Insufficient number of beds. (2) No isolation block for mixed or compliciated. disea-ses. (3) Unsuitable position and inadequate ventilation of water-closets and slop-sinks as well as inadequate and unsuitable baths. (4) Cramped accommodation for nursing and administrative staff. In the Weardale Eural District there is no isolation hospital accommodation for Enteric Fever cases, and the District Medical Officer of Health recommends that provision for such cases should be made. WATER SUPPLY. The water supply for the Administrative County dunng 1919 was unchanged to any great extent and on the whole was sufficient and of good quality, but there are still complaints of the inadequacy of the water supply to some of the more elevated parts of the County and especially in the case of the village of Hamsterley, in the Auckland Rural District. In September an important conference was convened by the County Council with the District Sanitary Authorities within the area, supplied l)y the Weardale a-nd Consett Water Coi. The question of the desirability of the water supply of the County being publicly owned arrd controlled was discussed, and facts regarding the Weardale and Consett Water Co. were laid before the meeting when it Ava.s resolved:— (1) That in the opinion of this conference of District Sanitary Authorities within the area of supply of the Weardale and Consett Water Company it is desirable that the supply of water in such areas should be publicly ovmed and controlled. (2) That in the event of the opinion being in favour of the undertaking of the Company being ])ublicly owned and controlled the. County Council be requested to take the necessary steps to obtain powers for the foiTnation of a joint water .board and for tlie acquisition of the undertaking of the Company,
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