[Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Grimsby County Borough & Port.

  • Great Grimsby (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1907
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Credit: [Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Grimsby County Borough & Port. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MIXED WORKSHOPS. Cattle Oil Manufacturers 2 Boot Repairers 8 Bottlers 2 Blacksmiths 2 Braiders 5 Cigar Makers 2 Cabinet Makers 5 Carriage Builders 1 Dressmakers 59 Dyers 1 Firewood Works 1 Fly Paper Makers 3 Joiners 6 Picture Framers 1 Laundries 8 Cycle Works 2 Milliners 35 Polishers 2 Plumbers 3 Rag Stores 2 Rope Turners 2 Sauce Makers 1 Sweet Boilers l Stocking Knitters 2 Tailors 43 Twine Spinners 6 Upholsterers 3 Wheelwright 1 Makers of Rubber Goods 1 Tinner 1 Undertaker 1 Umbrella Maker 1 The number on the registers in 1902 was 336, in 1903 416, in 1904 436, in 1905 557, in 1906 593, and in 1907 616. The following summary shows the work of the year :— No sanitary accommodation 1 No. of outworkers 48 New w.c.’s fixed 4 Places discontinued 14 Changes of occupancy 7 Dirty places cleansed 4 Rooms measured 8 New privy boxes provided 1 Ventilation provided between w.c.’s and workroom 1 Letters sent 3 Addresses changed 5 Abstracts supplied 9 Complaint of smells investigated .... 1 W.c.’s removed from workshop 1 Laundry floor relaid 1 15 intimations of the opening of new workshops (form 35) were received from His Majesty’s Factory Inspector as follows :—3 dressmakers, 5 milliners, 1 fly catcher paper maker, 1 laundry, 3 tailors, 1 braider, and 1 bakery. Abstracts of the Regulations are supplied through the Factory Inspector. INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Summarised the work of the year is as follows :— Visits and re-visits to houses 1912 Rooms fumigated 900 Houses ,, 9 Schools „ 14 Bedding treated at disinfector (lots) 738 Bedding burnt (lots) 4 Rooms fumigated (after Phthisis) 19 Rooms fumigated (after Cancer) 7 Removals for business reasons 45 Dirty house surroundings 61 Choked drainage 9 Defective privies 13 W.c.’s smell tested 5 Defective yard surfaces 11 Insanitary gullies and cesspools 22 Defective fallpipes 3 Low fallpipes on sewer direct 44 Dirty w.c.’s 1 Privy middens found 1
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