[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Wetherby R.D.C.
- Wetherby (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1896
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Wetherby R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The roof of the ashpit was bad, liquid percolated through the walls and ran down the yard to within a few feet of the door of the house. There were other sanitary defects, but after notices had been served by your Sanitary Com¬ mittee upon the property owners these were abated. There was also a case of Diphtheria at Clifford. Typhoid There were seven cases of Typhoid Fever, of which one Fever. at Wetherby proved fatal. At Hare wood a case occurred in a yard, where a person had suffered from the disease twelve months previously. Close to the door of the house was a large untrapped offensive opening into a sewer, formed by the junction of drains from the houses, pig styes and cowsheds in the yard. Number of In all there were fifty-one cases of Infectious Disease Infectious notified, a decrease of forty-three upon the previous year. Disease. One of the most important events of the year was a County “Report upon the sanitary condition of the Wetherby Council Union,” drawn up for the West Riding County Council by Report, the County Medical Officer (Dr. Kaye), copies of which were received in November. The Report deals well with the sanitary condition of the Union, and will give us a programme of work for many years to come. The sanitary condition of every parish is dealt with at length, and in summing up Dr. Kaye says, “ The Wetherby Rural District comes far short of reasonable sanitary efficiency.” I would refer your Council to a still further study of this Report in the hope that we may be able to place our Dis¬ trict in as efficient a sanitary condition as any District in the West Riding. The Report is too extensive for me to deal with further in this Annual Statement, and I must content myself b} making quotations from it later on. On December 9th a deputation of your Council met a section of the County Council Sanitary Committee at Waketield, and held a conference upon Dr. Kaye’s Report. SystJ]MATIC I have several times during the year visited Clifford, in Inspection. May drawing the attention of the Sanitary Committee to Clifford, the village. The Sanitary Inspector had visited it and reported on 50 properties, and the following is a summary made of his Report:— Number of Properties without Cesspools . 29 ,, ,, with bad Cesspools . 10 ,, with good Cesspools, or not reported upon.. 11 Number of Properties with Offensive, Defective, or absence of Privies and Ashpits. 45 Number of Houses without drains . 97](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30267766_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
