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

  • Chorley (England). Borough Council
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    properties in Chapel Street, Market Street, and Fazakerley Street, and ventilators to the sewers have been fixed without affording complete relief. Your Surveyor has found an old sewer under part of this property, and has cut it oft in Chapel Street. If this does not result in the complete cessation of the nuisance, I beg to recommend that the whole of this sewer be followed up, cleaned out, and cut off. During the hot months of the year flushing of sewers was regularly carried out. Paving, &c.—During the year, under your Surveyor’s directions, a great amount of Paving, Flagging, Kerbing and Channelling has been done, and under Section 150 Public Health Act, several streets have been paved and flagged, &c. Playgrounds.—By the will of the late Mr. Cocker a consider- able sum of money was left for the purpose of acquiring Playgrounds for the children of Chorley. You have bought two pieces of land, at Iianglets in the South Ward, and Harpers Lane in East Ward, and early in the present year these plots of land will be handed over to the public. The provision of Playgrounds for Children and Young People is of inestimable advantage to the whole of the population, and especially the young, as the more breathing places in any town the more healthy and the more free from disease is it likely to be. Destructor.-—There have been several improvements and additions in this department during the year. You have ordered Meldrum’s Steam Blowers to be fixed to each of the four cells, which will supplant the fans hitherto used, and which, as far as present experience shows, are a distinct improvement, as there is now more complete combustion, a better clinker formed, and an additional three tons of refuse per cell can be burnt every twenty-four hours. 1 am glad to say that now the whole of the refuse of the town is being rendered harmless in the Destructor. An additional binding for the Fish Manure Works has been erected. The Fish Manure Plant which was contracted for at the beginning of the year is now fixed and in good working order, and you have obtained in addition a Disintegrator to render the Fish Manure more suitable for sale. [19]