[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Southport County Borough.

  • Southport (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Southport County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The work of the Inspectors of Nuisances and the Meat Inspector during 1896 includes:— TABLE XXXII. Nuisance Inspections not reported to the Health Committee. 9314 Nuisances reported to Health Committee .. 1469 Enquiries into Zymotic Diseases (notifiable). 542 Do. do. (not notifiable) . 279 Patients removed to Hospital . 272 Houses, or parts of Houses, disinfected on account of disease (Zymotic). 448 Day Visits to Common Lodging-houses. 104 Night do. do. do. . 118 Inspections of Workshops not reported to Health Committee . 249 Do. do. reported to Health Committee . 33 Inspections under Shop-hours’ Act. 156 Visits to Cow-sheds and Milk-shops . 152 Cow-sheds reported to Health Committee . 65 Visits to Butchers’ Shops. 1804 Do. Market Hall. 272 Do. Public Slaughter-houses . 262 Do. Private do. 118 Do. Shrimp Potting-houses . 46 and other miscellaneous work not readily tabulated—making a total of 15,703 visits at the least, as several of the items in the preceding table involve two or three visits in each case] TABLE XXXIII. The various inspections made and notices served during 1896 resulted in orders being obtained for the execution of work to the number of 907, which resulted, together with the work done under our powers, in separate jobs, 1271, viz.:— Houses re-drained. 141 House-drains unstopped . 502 Midden-privies converted into Bristol ejects, i.e.—waste water- closets .«. 108 Wet ashpits converted into dry . 86 Sundry nuisances, involving structural alterations, abated. 434