[Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Watford U.D.C.

  • Watford (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1903
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Credit: [Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Watford U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of what was necessary would be most valuable and they were good enough to visit the Factories and supplied me with a list of what they thought should be done. I have issued notices in accordance with these recommendations and trust that in my next year’s report I may be able to inform you that all the necessary alterations have been satisfactorily carried out. I reported to you last year that the Factory and Workshops Act would almost double the Work of the Sanitary Department and I can now from practical experience again emphasise this statement. Nuisances. A large number of Nuisances have been found during the year, and in the majority of cases they have been abated without legal proceedings. The Drainage of i to 47 Fearnley Street has not yet been reconstructed and the Drainage of Watford Heath has not yet been executed. The Urinals in connection with some of the Public houses have been a cause of complaint at various times. They are all regularly visited twice a week and flushed out when found necessary. During the year considerable correspondence and a number of interviews with the owners and occupiers of the Queen’s Arms, Queen Street, and the Queen’s Arms, Callow Land, took place with a view to the erection of new urinals of a more improved type. - We have obtained no satisfactory result in the first instance and in the case of the Queen’s Arms, Callow Land, Messrs Sedgwick and Co. have made an offer which is still under consideration and which in my opinion should be accepted. Instead of erecting more public Urinals, I think it would be more to the interests of the Council to bear a portion of the expenses incurred in improving the sanitary condition of the Urinals already in existence, especially those in connection with Public Houses where the Public have an entrance from the street.