Dr. H. F. Parson's report to the local government board on the sanitary condition of the Stourbridge registration district, and on the late prevalence of scarlet fever therein.

  • Parsons, H. F.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Dr. H. F. Parson's report to the local government board on the sanitary condition of the Stourbridge registration district, and on the late prevalence of scarlet fever therein. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    24 collected apart, from tlie bulk of the dry refuse may not improbably be found preferable. Whether the Authority decide to let the removal of night-soil by contract or continue to keep it in their own hands,' care should be taken that the removal is effected sufficiently frequently to avoiding nuisances arising from accumulations of night-soil and refuse. The Authority should consult the Report to the Local Government Board “ On certain means of preventing excrement nuisances in towns and villages.” 4. The Sanitary Authority should separately or conjointly with other authorities provide facilities for the isolation and treatment of persons suffering from infectious disorders who are without proper lodging and accommodation in their own houses. The prejudices against hospitals which are commonly met with among uneducated persons may be hoped to diminish with judicious management, and with experience of the benefits of their use. In certain cases, moreover, persons suffering from infectious disorders may be compulsorily removed to a hospital under a justice’s order under Section 124 of the Public Health Act, 1875, and in view of the fact that the Brierley Hill Urban Sanitary Authority are appointed the Registration Authority, under the Canal Boats Act, for the Stourbridge Canal, it is to be especially noted that one of the cases coming under that section is when the sick person is on board any ship or vessel. The Authority should also provide an apparatus for the disinfection of bedding and woollen clothing, and a mortuary. IV. Quarry Bank Urban District. 1. The Sanitary Authority should with all convenient speed, cause all private streets which are in an unsatisfactory condition to be levelled, metalled, channelled, and sewered. 2. Efficient sewerage should without delay be provided for all parts of the district. All house premises should be drained into the sewers, by properly constructed branch drains. “ Dumb-wells ” and leaky cesspools should not be permitted to continue to exist. If any cesspools be necessarily retained, they should be made watertight and be properly ventilated. Disused cesspools should be emptied and filled up with lime rubbish, or other clean material. 3. The Authority should endeavour to procure for their district a supply of wholesome water, laid on under constant pressure. They should cause all wells which there may be reason to suspect to be polluted, to be examined, and, if found to be polluted, to be made safe against contamination, or to be closed. 4. The Sanitary Authority should consider what system of disposal of excrement is most applicable to the circumstances of their district in place of the present noisome midden-privies, in which matter they should consult the Report to the Local Government Board upon this subject, and may advantageously be guided by the experience of places where improved methods have been introduced. Privy middens, if allowed to exist, shoidd be reduced to the smallest practicable size, and should be so constructed as to be watertight and to exclude rain and surface and subsoil water, and to allow of the daily covering of excrement with ashes. 5. The Inspector of Nuisances should be appointed under such regulations as will ensure his devoting a sufficient amount of time to the inspection of the district. The Board’s general order of March 10th, 1880, may be referred to for the duties therein prescribed for inspectors of nuisances. Earnest attention should be paid by the Sanitary Authority to the suppression of nuisances, and where notices for their abatement are found insufficient, they should be followed up by legal proceedings.