[Report 1906] / Medical Officer of Health, Wednesbury Borough.

  • Wednesbury (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1906
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Credit: [Report 1906] / Medical Officer of Health, Wednesbury Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at back 23a Market Place, with entrance from Spring Head. These- premises were all re-drained, the yard and other portions paved, water laid on, &c., and they provide ample room for slaughter house, fasting pen, and cleansing room and good yard, and are in every way suitable for that purpose. The Inspectors under the Contagious Diseases (Animals’) Act have now 34 cowsheds kept by 19 owners, and 67 dairies under their control, to which upwards of 400 visits have been made, and white-washing ordered as required. At the close of the year I inspected each of the cowsheds, and found that many alterations are required, which will I hope be carried out early in 1907. Factory and Workshops’ Act. Under this Act there are 26 Bakehouses, and these have received periodical inspections; a record is kept of their cubical area and ventilation ; orders have been given in 7 instances for limewashing, etc., which were at once carried out. There are also 109 other workshops of various trades, viz. : Milliners and Dressmakers 25, Boot and Shoe Makers 9 ; the rest being Tailors. Nut Makers, Gunlock Makers, File Cutters, Breeze banks, Smiths, Wheelwrights, etc. Most of these places have been visited, and in six cases alterations have been made in the closet accommodation, and in several cases whitewashing has been ordered, and the same has always been promptly attended to_ It is with much pleasure that I have become aware of the intention of the Council to put in force in the Borough, Bye-laws which will require owners of cow-sheds to conform to definite regulations for the sanitary management of such sheds. Such a step marks a real advance in the sanitation of the town, for few measures can be of greater importance in safe-guarding the town’s health than those which tend to the purity of the milk supply. Disease in many forms undoubtedly arises from time to time from the consumption of impurities in milk *
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