[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough.

  • Smethwick (Worcestershire, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    G!) l.K'ITKHS WIJIT'I’I'^X AND XOTK'.IOS SIIU \’Kl) IX (OXXI'X'TIOX WITH SAXn'Ain' M A'I'J'KUS # TAHI.K IV. Letters . 1,0.)7 Proliiniiiary X'oticos (Publio Hc'alth Aet.s) ... 1,10!) Soconclnry Xoticos (Public Jlenlth Acts) ... ... 120 Statutory X’otices (Pulilic Health Acts) ... ... 2!)4 Statutory Xotice.s (Section 75. Public Health Act. 19.‘16. re Ashes ^Vcconiinodation)... ... ... 12!) Statutory X’otiocs (Section 49, Smethwick Corpora¬ tion Act, 1929) ... ... ... ... ... 144 Statutory X'otiees (Section 47. Public Health Act. 1936) .: 175 Statutory Xotices (Section 9, Housing Act. 1936)... 130 Preliminary Xotices (Housing: Act) ... ... ... 48 3,206 SHOPS ACT, 1934. It has not been necessary to take any action during the year under review in connection with ventilation or heating of shops or detective or insufficient sanitary conveniences. S:\IOKE AB.VTKAfEXT. During the j’ear. the number of half-hour observations of factory chimney stacks has risen from 20 to 66 and the number of nuisances recorded was 20. The increase in atmospheric ijolkuion has been in large measure attributable to the overloading of existing steam-raising plant in an effort to comply with demands for increased output. The nuisances have been remedied in some cases by the installation of smoke consuming appliances or by the augimuitation of existing i)lant and in other cases by more studied attention to scientific stoking. SWIAOIING BATHS AXD POOLS. The water in the ])ublic swimming baths is chlorinated and at the Smethwick Baths is also treated with ammonia. The maintenance of a satisfactory standard of purity is ensured by daily tests.