[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Melton Mowbray R.D.C.
- Melton Mowbray (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1905
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Melton Mowbray R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[6] this in my Annual and other reports ; and I now desire to emphasise the necessity for it, so that the work of disinfection and isolation may go on hand in hand, that we may attain the object for which the Hospital was designed. I trust, therefore, that you will consider the advisability of purchasing such a disinfecting apparatus as is suitable for the purpose indicated. THE SANITARY WORK. Twenty villages were inspected by me during the year ; including Somerby three times, Long Clawson twice, Asfordby thrice, Hose twice, and Stathern four times. A house to house inspection was made of nearly every one ; with the result that many filthy accumulations were removed, and nuisances abated, drains and water examined, drainage and sewers repaired, wells cleaned out, and other sanitary work done. The Sanitary Inspector's, Report includes : Premises, houses, etc., inspected 700, nuisances abated 55 ; privies, ditches, cesspools, ashpits inspected 300, nuisances abated 30 ; drains, etc., inspected 130, nuisances abated 25 ; offensive accumulations inspected and removed 30 ; all sewer dykes and tanks inspected, and cleaned out where necessary. Number of slaughter houses 50, inspected 25. Number of cow-keepers, dairymen, purveyors of milk in the district, about 400 ; number of premises inspected included in first item. Infectious diseases: houses infected and inspected twice each, 95 ; houses disinfected, 35 with formalin and carbolic acid supplied to all who desired it; clothing disinfected 3 lots, destroyed 2 lots. New privy middens provided 3 ; repaired 6, converted to pails 20, to W.C.’s 2; new pail closets provided 15, new ashpits 5. Water analysed 1, condemned 1 ; wells cleaned and repaired 7. New sewers and drainage laid : Long Clawson 114 yards, Wymondham 270, Nether Broughton 30, Saxby 25 yards. Building Bye-Laws: 29 plans of new buildings were submitted to and passed by the Council. The new sewerage scheme for Stathern is in progress. There was a case of Anthrax at Eaton, in November, and at Wymondham in December. The carcass of the animals was destroyed and the premises disinfected. Factory and Workshops Acts, 1901 : Number of Work¬ shops in the District, including bakehouses 39, bakehouses 32, nuisances abated 2. Home work : The outworkers number 170 in 150 houses ; houses infected and disinfected 6 ; several lots of veiling were destroyed from infected houses. Line of Progress : The persistence in attention to Drainage,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29795850_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
