[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Chatham Borough.
- Chatham (Kent, England). Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Chatham Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![f 9 The Water supply of the district continues to be of a highly satisfactory character, abundant, and very free from organic impurity, but of extreme hardness. I endeavoured a few years ago to bring about the adoption of some softening process, which there is no doubt can be done, and after the primary expense of erecting plant, can be done cheaply. The working expenses would be small, ‘but the saving to the public would be so great as to more than compensate for any extra charge the Water Company might make, besides which no person can gainsay that for comfort in use, soft water is far superior to hard water. There are now but very few wells in the Borough, and what there are have been examined from time to time. Surrounded as they are by cesspools, it is only a matter of time for those which are at present pure, to become contaminated. The Slaughterhouses through out the District have been period- ically inspected. Many of them are not in desirable situations, from a Sanitary point of view, but the owners are always willing to do whatever is suggested in order to minimise any nuisance, and generally speaking, the slaughterhouses are well kept and clean. With respect to the Common Lodging Houses, which are regularly inspected, I have invariably found that the proprietors are careful to adhere to the Eegulations framed in the Public Health Act, for the well ordering of such places. The same remarks apply to the Inspection of Bakehouses, Dairies, and Cowsheds, and to Workshops, the supervision of which now devolves upon Sanitary Authorities. All Workshops, where steam, water, or other power is. used for manufacturing, remains under the supervision of the Factory Inspectors. I have recently caused a oom]3lete inspection of premises of -this kind to be made, and in many cases there are defects, some of which will probably have to be brought to the notice of your. Sanitary Committee. I have constantly alluded to the need for supplying Bye-Laws to the owners of Slaughterhouses and Common Lodging Houses, and I venture again to suggest that the whole subject of Bye-Laws should](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29098804_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
