[Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, West Bromwich County Borough.
- West Bromwich (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1900
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, West Bromwich County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Sanitary Inspector’s Report FOR THE YEAR 1900. J o the Chairman and ]\Iembers of the Sanitary Committee. Gentlemen, INTRODUCTION. I have the honour to submit my second Annual Report as Sanitary Inspector for the County Borough of West Bromwich. I am glad to say that the progress in sanitary matters referred to in my last Report has been maintained, and that in every department of our work substantial ad¬ vances have been made. The gratifying results of the year’s work, which are detailed below, are to be attributed in no small degree to the extremely useful assistance ren¬ dered by Assistant Inspector Cotterell, and District Inspectors Child and Nott. GENERAL SANITARY WORK. HOUSE-TO-HOUSE INSPECTIONS. The house-to-house inspections have been continued, the District Inspectors having made a systematic examina¬ tion of the whole of the houses in 66 streets in different wards of the Borough, the total number of houses inspected being 2,830, with an approximately estimated population of 12,848. These figures show an increase on those of the preced¬ ing year, when 2,306 houses in 43 streets were examined. The particulars obtained as to the condition of the various structural conveniences were all entered on the printed forms provided, and the large number of nuisances detected, which included filthy and dilapidated houses and outbuildings, unpaved yard surfaces, choked or defective drainage, leaking privies and middens, offensive accumula¬ tions, and overcrowding were subsequently dealt with.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30259551_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
