[Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough.

  • Darlington (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1930
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Credit: [Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Adoptive Acts, etc.—The following Acts have been adopted in he Horongh:— Jlaths and Wash-houses Acts of 1846 and 1847. Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889. i| Infectious Disease (Prevention) Act, 1890. Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890. Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907 (except Sections 48, 82, 83, 92 and 94). Public Health Act, 1925, Sections 13-23 ; 25-30 ; 32 ; I 33 ; 35-39 ; 41-55 ; all inclusive. Darlington (Water Supply) Order, 1928. The most important local Acts dealing with Public Health ?inatters, are the Darlington Extension and Improvement Act, ■1872 and the Darlington Corporation Act, 1930. Section 92 of the Darlington Extension and Improvement J Vet, 1872, requires that all private slaughter-houses in the iiBorough shoidd be licensed. (On May 30th, 1911, an Order was obtained from the Local Government Board, under Section 50 of the Public Health Acts )i\mendment Act, 1907, declaring the trades of fat melter or fat iixtractor, fish fryer, gut scraper, rag and bone dealer, and candle iimaker within the Borough to be offensive trades. Under the City of Leeds, etc. (Measles and German Measles) jjjllegulations, 1920, Measles and German Measles are notifiable in ^Darlington. Chiekcnpox was made notifiable in the Borough on 23rd f December, 1923. Under the Borough of Darlington (Whoo])ing Cough) Regula- I lions, 1926, first cases of Whooping Cough occurring in children I under five years of age, are notifiable in Darlington. Darlington Corporation Act, 1930, came into force 1st October, 1 1930, and provided powers dealing with the following: extension i of boundaries ; registration of nursing homes in added area ; fouling of water ; j)rohibition of river pollution by offensive matter or bathing; provision of public slaughter-house; re- mioval frorn markets of emaciated or diseased animals, unsound meat ; dilapidated and neglected * buildings ; food storage 1 accommodation ; drains, sanitary conv^eniences ; ])arents notify- 1 ing infectious disease ; closure of Sunday Schools and exclusion of children from entertainments on account of infectious disease ; ^ furnishing of names of laundrymen in cases of infectious disease ; I, registration of ice-cream manufacturing premises ; Hlthy I preniises ; dustbins ; infected stables or other places ; and prohibition of vans, tents, etc., for human habitation except i ’with approval of Medical Officer of Health.