[Report 1921] / Medical Officer of Health, Bexhill U.D.C. Borough.
- Bexhill (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1921
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1921] / Medical Officer of Health, Bexhill U.D.C. Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Tlie question has engaged the serious attention of the Council, wlio decided that tlie best way to deal Avith it v\as. To previ'iit aii'locking of the mam tank by the ])io's isioii nf ventilation, and to pi(A'ide anti-back flow valves in the house drains as weie most subject to back-floo<ling. L lie.sc matters have been attended to, to scmie extent. J'huthei' provision to relieve the low-lying ai'eas is propos<'d by the extension of the main Ueginald Hoad Sewer as far as the lower end of the Down, ami also by relieving tbe Little Common Sewer by a bianch intercepting Sewei'. Action has still to be taken in carrying ont these suggestions. To ])rotect this ai'ca a i)ropei' relief for the water of exceptional storius should be provided. Sc.\VKX(UN(;.—The house refuse has been deposited on land West of the Park, which originally a stagnant marsh in itself a source of danger as a breeding giound of flies and nioscpiitoes has thereby been reclaimed and filled in up to a fixed level. The contract has lequired six inches of eai th covei. During the hot dry summer comijlaints were received of flies bleeding which were ascribed as owing to insufficient earth cover. d\) meet these complaints the ti]) was changed in August to a brick field in Turkey Hoad, but this latter Jmd to be dis- continued in a short time owing to alleged nuisance. It was expected that the reclamation work would lie finished by the end of May, 1922, but in consecpience of an Imiuiry held the .Ministry of Health directed that tJie de])osition of refuse there should cease at the end of Ajiril. and that a cover of .12 inches of eartli should be provided. The Council art* considering other systems of dealing with hous«‘ i'(*fnse in order to avoid reeurrenet' of similai' complaints. I'iPTiiKiiics.—'I'he epidemics of Scarlet Pever and Diph- theria practically ceased at the end of the tirst quarter, there being only a few isolated cases during the re.st of the year, 'there were two deaths from Dijilitbcria, both cases requiring 'rracheotomy. One died in the Past Sussex Hosiiital, and the other at home. 22 cases of Scarlet Fev(>r ami 12 of Diiihtberia were notified. During the autumn tliere was an outbreak of Whooiiing ('OUgh of a mild tyjie which nei'cssitated the closure of two J'llementary Schools. M.vrKuxiTY Homk.—'the propo.sed provision of Uome in Amherst Hoad was not inoceeded with owing to op])osition from the house adjoining. The scheme was taken biudc to he broimht](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28921501_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
