[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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    vision of new works and the sanitary condition and efficiency of existing works will receive proper attention withoxit unnecessary delay. i/ A regular system of inspection shews that the efficiency of many of the sewage purification works overlying the coal measures in the County is seriously affected by mining operations and that some of the authorities concerned are faced with very difficult and costly problems. The attention of three sanitary authorities has been called during the year to refuse tips formed by them on the banks of streams, causing both nuisance and pollution. Yet these offendiiig authorities have more legal power for dealing with such conditions than the County Cbuncil. The Rivers Pollution Prevention Act was passed 44 years ago and is altogether inadequate foi' dealing with conditions as we find them to-day. FOOD AND DRUGS ACT. The provisions of this Act are carried out in this County by a Chief Inspector of Weights and Mea.sm’es acting directly under the Executive Committee of the Cbunty Council, and he does not report to the County Health Committee. As stated in my last Annual Re]>ort, the boroughs of Hartlepool and Durham take and deal with their own samples, and in the boroughs of Stockton and Jarrow samples are taken by local officials and submitted by them to the County x4.nalyst. In the Administrative County the total number of samples examined during each quartei of the year by the County xA,nalyst are here given :— 1919. Not Cenuine Proportion Samples Examined, or below Standard. per cent. 1st Quarter '.. 247 ... 4G ... 18'G 2nd Quarter 329 ... 72 ... 21*9 3rd Quarter 224 ... 48 ... 2r4 4th Quarter 259 ... 33 ... 12'7 1,059 ... 199 ... 187
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