[Report 1912] / Medical Officer of Health, Alnwick (Union) R.D.C.
- Alnwick (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1912
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1912] / Medical Officer of Health, Alnwick (Union) R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![FOODS. The conditions affecting the wholcsomeness of foods for human consumption, other than milk, produced] or sold in this rural district, are such that no action has been deemed necessary during the year under review. HOUSING ACCOMMODATION. In continuation of my house-to-house inspections under the Housing Regulations in the Town Planning &c. Act, 1909, I have been through the villages of Alnmouth, Boulmer. Billon, and Acklingtor, when 290 houses were inspected, after which 24 informal notices were served. No real cases of overcrowding were found, although some of the back bed- rooms at Boulmer' were occupied to their fullest capacity, and no houses unfit for human habitation were noted. A dilapidated and semi-ruinous tenemented house in Bridge Street, Wark worth, has been vacated. The improvements to the miners’ houses at Radoliffe have been in abeyance since the coal strike. It is to be regretted, however, that the additions already carried out at Radeliffe, in the township of Hauxley, which has no byelaws under urban powers, merely consisted of raising the back-to- back houses in the Cross Row, and thus this arrangement, which for sanitary and other reason® has been found to be most undesirable, is being perpetuated. FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901. Fifteen factories in which mechanical power is used, ancl eighty-six workshops are on the register. At these places, which are chiefly village blacksmith’s and joiner’s shops, limewashing is better attended to. Only one bakehouse exists in the district, at Christen Bank, which has been limewashed, as well as the loft for flour above it. A privy inside a cartwiight’s premises at Togston has been removed. Closets for each sex have been provided at a fish yard at Oraster, and) ventilation for a workshop at Powburn. There are no “outworkers” in the district.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28800552_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
