[Report 1902] / Medical Officer of Health, Ormesby U.D.C.

  • Ormesby (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1902
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Credit: [Report 1902] / Medical Officer of Health, Ormesby U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INSPECTIONS. There have been very few special complaints made, and these have all been satisfactorily dealt with on verbal intimation. The slaughter-houses, cow sheds, milks]iops and dairies, have on Inspection been found in a satisfactory condition. There has only been occasion to complain in one instance, and this was promptly attended to. SCAVENGING. The whole of the scavenging of the district is being executed by the Council’s workmen in a fairly satisfactory manner, The sinks and gnllies in private-yards continue to be cleaned out by your staff. More care is needed on the part of occupiers to keep matter which should be foreign to drains out of them. FIRE BRIGADE. The Fire Brigade has regularly performed its various duties, and the equipment is in good order. There has been only one fire during the year, which occurred on the 20th of April last, on the premises of Mr. John Day, Grocer, at the corner of Smeaton and Pennyman Streets. There was considerable damage done which would have been of a much more serious nature but for the prompt measures taken by your Fire Brigade. DISINFECTING AND CLEANING. Each case of Infectious Disease, as reported and ordered by the Medical Officer, has been duly disinfected. I am of opinion that the various public schools in the district might be advantageously disinfected periodically :—say during holiday times or at the latter end of the week. \J SEWERAGE. The whole of the Sewers have been thoroughly flushed with large flushing boiler once during the year, and with smaller flushing appliances at intervals. Considering the little fall that the district drains have, and the consequent need for thorough periodical flushing, it is much to be regretted that the late Local Board of Health disposed of its large flushing boiler. The possession of another of similar dimensions is essential if the Drainage System of the district is to be kept in good order. The Sewer running under “The Grove” and the dwelling house erected by Mr. S. E. Thorrold, has been diverted, and is now in accord with your Bye-Laws and Common Law, and working satisfactorily. Mr. J. W. Pennyman has extended o i the King’s Road and Ormesby Road Sewer to the houses in course of erection in Ormesby Road near “ Whitehouse Farm,
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