[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Burnley R.D.C.
- Burnley (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Burnley R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![fixing of ])l;iccs at wliicli pul)lic scrx’ice \’ehiclcs will not bo allowed to pick up or set down passengers which were prolonged throughout 1936, were finally completed in June, 1937. Electricity cables were laid by Burnley Corporation, the Lancashire Electric Power Co., and Nelson Corporation, in the following roads :— Cross Lane Barley Lane Manchester Road Burnley—Accrington Road Red Lees Road Jubilee Street Dudley Hill Whin’s Lane Pendle Bottom Padiham Road Hurstwood Lane Burnley Lane Brun Terrace Halifax Road Todmorden Road Barley. do. Hapton. do. Cliviger. Read. do. do. Reedley Hallows. Sabden. Worsthorne. do. do. Briercliffe. do. Ov'erhead Cables were fixed at Reedley Hallows and Dunnock- shaw. Water Mains were laid in the Rural District by neighbouring authorities at Ullswater, Buttermere and Thirlmere Roads, Worsthorne. Gas Mains were laid in Back Lennox Street, Worsthorne ; Back Granville Street, Back Talbot Street and Townley Street, Briercliffe ; and on the Hapton Housing Estate. Post Office Telegraph Cables were laid at Dam Head, Roughlee. Linder the Rights of Way Act, 1932, several objections were enquired into by the Council during the year. A great improvement in the accommodation for office staffs has been effected by removal of the Surveyor’s Department to offices in an adjoining building in Nicholas Street, the adaptation of the Surveyor’s old offices to accommodate the Rating Depart- ment and the utilisation by the Health Department of the offices in Thomas Street formerly occupied by the Rating Depart- ment. Mr. R. M. Catlow, Private Street Works Assistant and Mr. J. Warrington, Engineering Assistant, left the service of the Council during the year, their places being taken by Mr. R. G. Wordsworth and Mr. B. Hartley, respectively. T. Nowell was appointed Junior Clerk.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28965991_0068.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
