[Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Royal Tunbridge Wells Borough.
- Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: [Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Royal Tunbridge Wells Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![This is a work which will add much to the comfort of the inhabitants, by carrying disagreeable odours from the streets, and I shall be pleased to see so good a work pushed to its completion. IndOOt* Boths.—The builders have made excellent progress with the Indoor Baths, and I trust that they will complete within the time allowed] by the contract, in order that the baths may be opened in the Summer or early Autumn. Labourers’ Dwellings.—In my report for last year, I called attention to the desirability of your taking advantage of the powers given you by a wise legislature for the erection of cottages for the occupation of the. respectable and provident poor. During the year 1897, the Council has adopted part III. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act (1890), and has taken steps for the acquisition of land, at which I am extremely pleased; and I trust that it will push on so excellent a scheme for relieving the overcrowding that still exists in many of the poorer parts of the Borough. With the assistance of the landlords we have done a good deal during the year in improving the sanitary condition of many old homes, and have thereby increased the comfort of many poor people. Much remains to be done in this respect, and I trust that we shall have the assistance of all right-minded owners of cottage property in our efforts which are directed solely for the public weal. Unless this assistance be given you will of course have no alternative but to exercise to the full the ample powers which Parliament has placed in your hands. Sanitary Work.—The Report of the Sanitary Inspector is appended, and shews a record which surpasses all previous efforts in this direction. Finally, I would state that the health of the Borongh was satisfactory at the end of the year. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, WILLIAM STAMFORD, Medical Officer of Health](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30196176_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
