[Report 1966] / Medical Officer of Health, Bexhill U.D.C. Borough.
- Bexhill (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1966
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Credit: [Report 1966] / Medical Officer of Health, Bexhill U.D.C. Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Report of the Senior Public Health Inspector Mr. Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors, I have pleasure in submitting my report for 1966. The year was uneventful, but continued progress was observed in all aspects of the Department’s work. The new Central Abattoir at Hastings came into full production and the old worn-out premises with inadequate facilities in another part of the town were closed. The new public convenience at Normans Bay was completed and with the public sewer and water supply now available will undoubtedly lead to much improved sanitary conditions for this area. We were once again informed that, like the prima donnas of old, this was positively the last appearance of the Ashdown Road Gas Works and it would make its last bow in 1967. There is every reason to believe that the curtain will indeed fall for the last time next year. Miss N. McEvoy, the Inspectors’ Secretary, arrived back from foreign parts ” much improved in health and took over from Mrs, Franklin, who had deputised so well. Whth the continued rise in the number of day visitors to the town by car at weekends, when on a sunny day as many as a thousand cars will be parked on or near the sea front, the question of the adequacy or otherwise of the public conveniences serving this area miust soon receive serious consideration. The existing conveniences, all built before 1914, when conditions were entirely different, are well main- tained, but do not, in my opinion, give the service that one expects now. Considering that there are no full-time attendants at any of these conveniences, the number of complaints is very small. The removal of a scrap iron business from Chandler Road, where it was in close proximity to dwelling houses, to a site in St. Mary’s Lane has not proved entirely successful. The new site is very confined and tlic access is on an acute bend in a narrow lane. It is to be hoped tliat in tlie future it can be accommodated on the Council’s new industrial estate at the West Station Goods Yard. I lousiNf, Ihirtli(;r attention was given to basement Hats and individual unlit houses. IlousiNo Grants 'twenty-seven grants W(‘re. mad(' by the Borough Council, but of these rnily six were for tenant j)ro])(uti(‘S.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28921847_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
