[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Chatham Borough.

  • Chatham (Kent, England). Borough Council.
Date:
1894
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Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Chatham Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    receive the consideration of the Council. The Bye-Laws of the late Local Board of Health have been adopted, but the whole subject requires attention. Model Bye-Laws have been drawn up by the Local Government Board for the guidance of Sanitary Authorities, which may be either adopted in their entirety, or modified to the needs of the District seeking to frame Bye-Laws. The system of empyting Cesspools by means of pumps, which has now been in operation for two or three years, is a very great improve- ment on the disgusting system of empyting by hand. Not only is the sewage removed more frequently, but the nuisance attendant on the process has been reduced to a minimum, and the difference is most realized in the poorer quarters of the town, where the old system formerly caused a most pestilential nuisance, the absence of which, must be a gain to all living in its vicinity. During the past year many complaints have been received respect- ing the non-removal of House Refuse. It is most important that this should be regularly taken away, particularly in the poorer quarters of the town ; and if the plan which has been drawn up for the guidance of the men charged with this duty, be systematically followed, then there need be no difficulty in the matter. Besides the inspections of premises mentioned above, much other useful Sanitary Work has been carried out during the year, and in many cases I have forwarded Special Reports to your Sanitary Com- mittee. Not the least important item in the Sanitary Administration of your District, which has been carried out during 1894, has been the watch kept upon the food supply of the Borough, and in some instances unwholesome fish has been detected and destroyed, without the necessity of a magistrate’s order. Appended are the following Tables— TABLE A. Showing Deaths during the year 1894, classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities. TABLE B. Showing Population, Births and new cases of Sick- ness during 1894, classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.
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