[Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, East Grinstead U.D.C.
- East Grinstead (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1919
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, East Grinstead U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![All Notices served have been readily complied with. The large quantities of unsound and diseased meat condemned are ver}^ unusual for this district It is no doubt accounted for by the scarcity of home grown cattle and the sending to market of old and diseased beasts, which were making high prices. A large (juantity of imported beef had been in cold storage a considerable time and when received here was in such a decomposed and unsound condition as to be (piite unfit for human consumption. Much of that that was sound was very ])Oor in quality, very thin and chiefly old cow beef. The condemned meat was either cremated at the destructor or when suitable, cooked for pig food. The provision of a Public Abbatoir is under consideration by the Council. Schools. The water supply is from the mains of the Water Company. The sanitation of the Elementary Schools has been the subject of complaints from the Urban Council for some years past. The fittings and appliances are of an obsolete type and totally inadequate for present day requirements. The East Sussex County Council who control these Schools through local managers, have now invited tenders for the reconstruction of the sanitary accommodation and it is understood, plans for im})ortant alterations and additions to the Schools amounting to rebuilding in parts, will be carried out at an early date. Daries, Cowsheds and Mlilkshops. Generally, these have been maintained in good order and the milk supply has been of good quality and ample in quantity. Three suspected samples were examined but no dilution was detected. Factories and Workshops Act, 1901. There are 20 workshops as defined under this Act in this District, consisting chiefly of tailoring, dressmaking, laundries and bakehouses. There is only one outworker in the district. Many of the workshops have been only partly occupied during the War, other industries attracting many of the young peo[)le from the district. It was found necessary to serve one notice to cleanse during the year. There is one licensed underground bakehouse. Housing. The number of houses in the district is approximately 1518 of which about three-fifths may be said to be working class dwellings. Plans for two cottages were deposited during the year and these will shortly be occupied. Euilding operations have practically been stagnant during the war, though alterations, repairs and additions to existing houses and business premises have sufficed to keep the trade alive. It is difficult to see how building from an investment point of view can in the face of present prices regain its pre-war position. The Urban Council have purchased a site sufficient in area to erect 100 working class dwellings, near the Kailway Station. This site has been approved and the house plans, it is hoped, will soon receive the final approval of the Ministry of Health. The scheme commenced on the Halsford Estate in 1914 is still in abeyance, nor does there seem any early prospect of another start.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29182682_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
