[Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Bridgnorth Borough.

  • Bridgnorth (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1943
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Credit: [Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Bridgnorth Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sec, D. There has been a stead;' rteterinratlon in the state of ronair of the houses of the industrial workers durins the year, in yart duo to the shortage of labour and building materials. No ne.'v houses have been built. Inspection of the houses in the borough is in progress with a view to the scheduling o.f • o learance areas. The 'c^ost War Reconstruction Coniinrttee has planned for the buiJ'ding o-f* houses in the first year after the war and 27^. ta ™eonnd year, with improved facilities for recreation and oiavinf’ fields'. Sites have been selected o.nd negotaations are in progress \rith ov/ners, the District Valuer and the Kinistx'y of Tov/n 3c Country Plannings Ministry'of Health' Circular 2871, 1943.- ' This deals with the (Tuestion of riiaking labour and riTateria].s available for carrying out essential work -f repairs to house properuy-. •^rcular 2845.-- 1945= This gives power under cer-irain condi-^inns to Local-Author it ios to -roquisition -.unoccupied houses for farailies-inadequately housed. Sec IHSPEnTI'^N and SUPSRVlSloi: nr PnoD ■■ Meat for the Borough ic slaughtered in Wolverhampton prior to li'ansp(^rt ■ to and cistribut ion in and around tne Borougn. An effort to ob-lain permission to slaughter -^n tne Borough ’insucc e 3 s fu 1 = Mildc^^PPli of all dairy herd of.miIk. Sec, F, PR5VALENCD nP, AND- CnNTRaL -.-—.'I ■ 1 ** —^ roTT-noo '.on* C'* T7I OVER IhPECTinUS AND 'other diseases Isolation Hospitalc Miss Kyle, Matron, who sorioisiy'il'l Tn De'cc’nbGr, died . in-January . _Mrs, Roba.ns wa. then ap:tinted temporary Matron and her appointment has sin been confirmed. Infe^-tious Disease Incidence c.' An epidemic of mild whooping :.-ucV 'c^5>rrrTcrX:rUK tp ^bo year- cases of scarlet fever d'oring the firsi. nine montn^, ox th J No case of di'phtheria i^as notified. Diphtheria Imminiaation. Thra ia carried out roainly by the luV-^i^r-ouT v^ is difficulty in arranging Ills C application may be made to the Medical Officer o to have the treatment gi/en by the' patient a- own .1,'_ coat to the parents. Immunisation by the County ^ 'Irried out at the Ylolfare Centre,. or at school, aVsoon A possible after a ohild-a first birthday la the beat vime for -this treutmont. '