[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Newton Abbot R.D.C., Wolborough U.D.C., Dawlish U.D.C.

  • Newton Abbot (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Newton Abbot R.D.C., Wolborough U.D.C., Dawlish U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Devon may be in association with this, the locality receiving large numbers oi visitors and c onvalescents. All attempts to cope with it b\ means cf isolation seem hopeless under present conditions, but it by pi means follows that this will always obtain. 1 \ 1 ’I IOID F KV h'R.—1 he first case to which my attention was drawn, was at Kingsteignton, in July. Of r i or 12 rioted, eight, including both deaths shewn in the tables, were in this village. For years past, it has yielded more typhoid than the whole of the remainder of this vast district of 173 }unre miles. Impuritication of the soil around the houses, and u bad system of sewerage dependent almost entirely on rainfall for cleansing, are no doubt the causes of this, causes that would be intensified during the prolonged drought of 1893^. 1 he village is without a public supply of water and the amount carried is as nothing for flushing purposes in it.-> va t and capacious sewers. ,1 he Authority is showing a decided disposition to remedy this evil : a special paragraph on the subject is given ] iter. DIARRHCEA.—Notwithstanding the high temperatures and unusual climatic conditions that have prevailed, there does not seem to have been any marked excess of this. SANITARY WORK.—In October, the Authority appointed an additional inspector of nuisances, retaining- hb mvices tour days plenty of employment has been inspection of 1 n and urgdbltl Authority reqp groups of lions or w c are¬ al of it the real _ ices of the ,he carried LUXtaryi or example. are still without full information as to \Vn ether the notices with reference to Wears Cross, Kingskerswell manor and other places, are properly responded to. It is, I consider, most important that all premises, in which disease has actually happened, should he visited on expiry of a notice and reported on : this is sanitation of a very direct sort, Morcton has been supplied with water at a cost of i'iSoo and a scheme for the modernization of its sewers awaits the approval of the Local Government Board, The supply for To-rbryan has not yet been introduced, hut the business difficulties of the negotiation have, 1 understand, been overcome. A house to house inspection of Moreton has been carried out,and a list of defects supplied to the Local Committee, who seem disposed to deal energetically with them. A similar inspection of Ashburton has been commenced. Considerable extensions of water mains have been made at Bovey. Improvement in water supplier or other considerable work involving groups of houses have been effected in Dicker’s court, Kingsteignton ; in Orchard and \Y hitch ill terraces, High week ; in the Island at Moreton 1 https://archive.org/details/b29908930