[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough.

  • Chorley (England). Borough Council
Date:
1908
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    or a storage tank in Heapey Road, but the general pressure, especially in the North Ward, still was insufficient. This has been lately much improved by the laying of a new fifteen inch main from the Chorley reservoir to the top of Eaves Lane. I have had one or two complaints during the year about the impurity of the water, but as a general rule I consider that the Borough is well equipped with a sufficient supply of good pure water. Cowsheds and Dairies (Milk Supply).—The whole of the Farms, Cowsheds and Dairies in the Borough were visited and examined by your Inspector and myself in 1906, and a report was made by me to the Council of their condition. Fresh regulations, chiefly on the lines of the Model Regulations of the Local Government Board, were made by the Council and ratified by that Board. My report was again considered by the Council, and notices were ordered to be served on several Cowkeepers and Dairymen to improve lighting and ventilation, remedy defective drainage and paving, and to reduce the number of cattle kept where there were more than one cow to every six hundred cubic feet of space. As these notices were given in the latter portion of 1907, when the cows were not grazing, and the time allowed was considered insufficient, your Council agreed to defer any further action until the spring of 1908. I am glad to be able to report that the following improvements have been made :—Ventilation in ten (10) cases, Drainage in eight (8), Water Supply in five (5) cases (four (4) of which have obtained the public supply), and overcrowding in fifteen (15) instances. Four (4) other Cowkeepers have been served with notices, and the work will be undertaken in the spring of the present year. The Milk Supply of Chorley is obtained not only from Dairymen and Cowkeepers resident within the Borough, but also from farmers living in several townships comprised in the Rural District of Chorley. The Rural District Council have recently adopted Regulations under the Dairy and Cowsheds Act, and I have visited all the farms in the Rural District. The Rural Council have, like your Council, issued several notices to Cowkeepers requiring them to provide proper light, ventilation, drainage, and air-space for the cows. [15]