[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Newton Abbot R.D.C., Newton Abbot U.D.C., Dawlish U.D.C.

  • Newton Abbot (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1894
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Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Newton Abbot R.D.C., Newton Abbot U.D.C., Dawlish U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    there was full opportunity, indeed in one instance a childrens’ party was held to amuse the convalescent. There has been one prosecution during the year, a butcher who already had a slaughter-house in the vicinity of the town, having without permission established one in a thickly populated locality: he was fined £i and ordered not to use the Diace again. The poultry nuisance in some parts of the town is very rife and will have in the future to be dealt with effectually. They should not be allowed in courtyards that are common to several houses. People who keep them on premises wholly their own, although no doubt they injure the constitutions of their children in so doing, can hardly be effectually dealt with in the present state of public opinion, but where an open space belongs to more than one house, they should, I think, be put down; for it is no uncommon thing to find in these cases that a minority of residents quarter their fowls and ducks on kindly neighbours, who do not like to complain. Mr. J. S. Delbridge, surveyor, and inspector of nuisances, reports the following details in his department :— 430 yards of 9 inch socket pipe sewer have been laid in Beach Street, Brookdale Terrace, and in the grounds of the Manor House. The town refuse is still supplied to farmers as it is taken from the streets and the system works well. The submarine outfall sewer through the action of a storm partly silted up : it is now working successfully, although a good deal of trouble was encountered in clearing it. The use of the smoke test has led to improvement in the drainage system of four houses.