[Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Newport (Isle of Wight) Urban Sanitary District.

  • Newport (Isle of Wight, England). Urban Sanitary District.
Date:
1895
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Credit: [Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Newport (Isle of Wight) Urban Sanitary District. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the Urban Sanitary Authority, the Town Council of the Borough of Newport, I. W. Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit to you my first Report of the works carried out in the sanitary department from the date of my appointment as your Sanitary Inspector, viz., March 25th to December 31st, 1895. The fact of my coming here as a perfect stranger necessi¬ tated my devoting almost the whole of the first month to making myself acquainted with the District and people, the necessary office arrangements, and other routine work; also to arrange the whole work of my department into some¬ thing like methodical shape. On settling down to work I soon found both from my own inspections and the nature of the complaints received that the domestic drainage was the first matter to which I should have to direct my special attention, and this indeed has proved to be a work necessitating persistent searching and careful watching to prevent in many cases the remedy being worse than the disease. The work of getting the domestic drainage into anything like a satisfactory condition must be a work of time and great care, because from the crowded state of many build¬ ings in some of the older streets, and the complicated way in which the drains are laid and connected, render it per¬ fectly useless to replace the old and defective fittings by modern appliances until there are good and satisfactory drains underneath, and more especially so as the majority of the drains have to pass under the houses to be connected to the main sewers in the streets. SLAUGHTER-HOUSES. There are 18 licensed slaughter-houses in the District, situated as follows: 10 in Scarrots Lane. 1 ,, Cross Street. 1 ,, Carisbrooke Road. 1 ,, Chain Lane.
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