[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Penzance U.D.C. / Borough.
- Penzance (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1898
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Penzance U.D.C. / Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[3] Scavenging. The scavenging of the Borough by your Authority continues to be in the main well conducted. In one respect a word of caution appears to be necessary No dust-barrel should under any circumstances be transferred from one tenement to another without intermediate cleansing and airing in the town yard. Bakehouses, Slaughter-houses, Dairies, Cowsheds, and IVIilk-shops. There are in the Borough 19 bakehouses, 18 slaughter-houses, 28 dairies and milk-shops, and two cowsheds. All are registered and regularly inspected. In the early part of the year a nuisance arose in connection with one of the slaughter-houses, situated near an edge of the Borough, caused by the undue exposure of offal on adjoining pasture land. This was remedied at the time, and no further cause of complaint has occurred. Vaccination. The Vaccination Acts have been for years most laxly administered throughout the Union. Large numbers of children remain unprotected, and I have not heard of any prosecution for some years. Not many “ conscientious objectors ” have appeared in the courts, and it is to be hoped that the recent insistence of the Local Government Board upon the responsibilities of Vaccination Officers, and the substitution of calf for human lymph, may lead to a more general fulfilment of the law. Seizure of Food and “Sale of Food and Drugs” Act. During the year 75 lbs. of meat were seized in the Meat Market and destroyed. Two samples of water were analysed, and two of milk. No prosecutions were necessary. I recommend further analyses from time to time. Interim Reports during the Year. During the year bt-^monthly reports dealing with sickness, deaths, nuisances, defects in dwelling-houses, water-fittings, &c. (the outcome of constant inspection), have been regularly made to your Authority by the Medical Officer of Health, Sanitary Inspector, and Borough Plumber; and the usual monthly reports have been sent to the Chairman of the Cornwall County Council Sanitary Committee. One special report was made to your Authority, in February, in connection with the Influenza Epidemic and the closing of the Elementary Schools. Copies of this were at the same time forwarded to the County Council and to the Local Government Board. Tables A and B—Vital Statistics. I ask your attention to the Tables of Vital Statistics for the year 1898, enclosed with the official copy of this Report.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29986655_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
