[Report 1965] / Medical Officer of Health, Eccles Borough.

  • Eccles (Greater Manchester, England). Borough Council.
Date:
1965
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Credit: [Report 1965] / Medical Officer of Health, Eccles Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (b) FOOTANDMOUTH DISEASE No orders affecting Eccles were made during the year. (c) FOWL PEST No orders affecting Eccles were made during the year. (d) DISEASES OF ANIMALS (WASTE FOOD) ORDER, 1957. The provisions of this Order are intended to prevent the spread of disease amongst animals and poultry as a result of contact with infected food. The principal requirement is the boiling for one hour, in a plant licensed by the local authority for this purpose, of all “waste foods” intended for * use as animal and poultry food. Five premises are licensed. 9. PREVENTION OF DAMAGE BY PESTS ACT, 1949 (Table XXVI) The Act requires every local authority to ensure, as far as practicable, that its district is kept free from rats and mice. Owners and occupiers of land and premises are required to take all necessary steps to eradicate rodents and to notify substantial infestations to the local authority. The Department employ a pests officer who carries out the rodent extermin- ation work of the Department. This service is free to occupiers of private dwellings. Business premises are treated at the request of the owners or occupiers on a chargeable basis. (During 1965 £111.12.0d. was derived from such business treatments and a total of 415 treatments were carried out at 378 premises.) In addition to the services provided by the local authority there are private operators who carry out pests extermination on a contractual basis. It is not normal practice for these operators to noti- fy the local authority when and where they are carrying out their works and this means of course that the extent of their service and the location of infestations are not known to the Public Health i Department. The treatment of the sewage system in the Borough is carri ed out by the Borough Engineer and Surveyor’s Department. 10. OFFENSIVE TRADES There are two offensive trades established within the borough Location Trade Land adjoining 22 Worsley Road Rag and bone dealer Premises in Montonfields Road Tripe boiler and tallow melter Regular inspections of the premises were carried out during the year. No special action was i found necessary. 11. HEALTH EDUCATION Health Education is pursued wherever possible by both advice and information given informally ] to members of the public, and by formal lectures given to interested organisations; exhibitions are i are also staged and advertising matter and posters displayed. A Clean Air Exhibition held in the Town Hall from the 6th to the 10th April, 1965 was visited I by 2,167 adults, as well as school children in organised parties from the schools in the Borough. A I stand showing the use of improvement grants for the older types of houses, which included a model !i house made by the staff of the department, aroused much interest. Demonstrations of all types of smokeless fuel appliances suitable for use in smoke control areas, j