[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, County Council of the Palatine of Chester / Cheshire County Council.

  • Cheshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, County Council of the Palatine of Chester / Cheshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Milk-shops.—The milk-supply is also good, but the Medical Officer of Health draws attention to the necessity of great care being exercised by the vendors. All articles used in dealing with milk must be kept scrupulously clean, and in rooms quite detached from ordinary living-rooms. Systematic Inspections are made by both the Medical Officer of Health and the Inspector. The Sub-district is fairly free from dwelling-houses untit for habitation, and from over- crowding. Yet, there is a part of Bosden where the dwelling- houses are old and wanting in modern conveniences, though not sufficiently bad to be condemned. Grosvenor Street in Bosden is in a very unsatisfactory state, owing to the accumu- lation of mud thereon during the greater part of the year. Two great improvements have been effected during the year—the lighting of the streets and the removal of the tele- phone posts from the main road. In some localities the number of lamps should be increased ; and it would be an advantage if the telegraph posts were also removed from the main roads. Report of the Surveyor and Inspector.—In all 172 nuisances were entered in the report book. Formal notices were served in respect of 96, and 61 were abated without formal notice. Seven house drains were cleansed and repaired, 28 sink waste-pipes were disconnected, 22 privies and ash-pits were repaired, 3 farm drains, 8 ditches, and 2 cesspools were cleansed. Sixteen connections to sewers were made. One case of overcrowding was dealt with, and one house was condemned as unsafe. Sixty-seven new houses were erected, and 10 warehouses, stables, <fcc. Three new streets were made, and 52 yards of sewers were laid. On March 25 th, the Authority let to a contractor the work of emptying and carting away house-refuse within the Hazelgrove Special Drainage District. This wTas done during the remainder of the year, under the Surveyor’s supervision. The number of emptyings was 830, and the cost iH45 5s. Od, STOCKPORT Rural Sanitary District. South Werneth Sub-District. Medical Officer of Health—Du. F. Cant. Population at Census, 1891—1,012.