[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City & County.

  • Newcastle upon Tyne (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    11/88 (page 11)
    It will be observed (Appendix A, Table XYI., page 70) tliat the number of new |)ail-closers provided in tlie abatement of nuisances (230) is much less than the year before (832), and that the number of water-closets put in in similar circumstances is maintained (646 last year against 644 during the year before). It is satisfactory to note that although the number ol ins|)ectioDS of tenement property (Appendix A, Table XVI.) have been considera])ly more than in the year before (21,462 against 15,054), the contraventions of the Bye-laws reported have been fewer (1,410 against 1,752 in 1892)—an evidence of improved sanitary habits on the part of the tenants. The number of nuisance cases, &c., heard before the magistrates is 119, the fines imposed for which amount to £3 5s., as compared with 128 cases and £10 Is. imposed fines in the previous year. The number of prosecutions under the Food and Drugs Acts (see Table XVIII., Appendix A) is an increase on those of the year before. The penalties imposed (£6 15s.) are the same in amount for both vears. •y The inspection of Common Lodging Houses (Tables XIX., and XIXa., b, c, and D, has proceeded with regularity throughout the vear. The amount of Suspected or Unwholesome Provisions dealt with ( Appendix A, Table XIY.) is considerably greater, and the fines imposed (£31. 3s. 6d.) heavier than during the year 1892. The Report of Inspector Hedley (page 41) shews that the number of Cowkeepers in the City is gradually falling off, which is satisfactory as regards the sanitation of the City. How far the change may be conducive to improvement in the milk supply is difficult to say. The Slaughter Houses are becoming insufficient for the requirements of the City. The new block erected at Byker Hill by a Company of Butchers to meet the objection of the Authority to the old insanitary slaughter houses in the East end, although Avell built and in many respects commendable, does not remedy this, and will not stimulate the proposal previously entertained of the erection of a Public Abattoir by the Corporation.