[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenford, UDC].

  • Greenford (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1912
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    10 Districts were asked to co-operate in the matter. At the meeting of the Committee held on November 16th it was resolved that the whole of Greenford and Perivale parishes be included in the scheme, and it was agreed that the width of through roads should be fixed at not less than 60 feet, recently reduced to 50 feet. New roads, shown on the Surveyor's map, were provision ally agreed upon. The Committee is still persevering in their arduous work preparatory to applying to the Local Government Board for permission to prepare a scheme. Workshops, Work-places, etc. By referring to the Special Form of the Home Office attached to this Report, it will be seen that we have very little to do under this heading, most of the duties being under the supervision of the Inspector of Factories I may mention, however, that during the month of April, an outbreak of lead poisoning occurred at the Purex Lead Works. These cases were not notified to the Home Office as they should have been by the medical attendants, and subsequent to a visit of an inspector several notifications were sent to me under the misapprehension that the notification was to be made as in the case of an ordinary scheduled infectious disease. I believe there are very few general medical practitioners aware of this provision in the Factory and Workshop Act. In this case neither the medical attendant at the factory nor the factory surgeon appeared to do so, as they both sent the notification to me. The Home Office subsequently took legal action in the matter. C.—Sanitary Administration of the District. 1.—The Sanitary Inpector is also Surveyor and Rate Collector. As Inpector he has chiefly been engaged in attend ing to complaints of nuisances such as are generally found in rural districts, e.g., the pollution of water courses and ditches, offensive pig sties, the inspection of cow sheds, etc.