[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Hartismere R.D.C.

  • Hartismere (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1910
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Hartismere R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    10/32 (page 10)
    Foods.—With regard to foods, there is no reason to believe that any foods of an unsound character are exposed for sale in the district, and the places in which foods are prepared, stored or exposed for sale are only subjected to the same systematic inspection as the other houses of the district, with the exception that the bakehouses are specially inspected ; and their periodical cleansing and lime-washing secured. The supply of meat in the district is to a large extent from the adjacent towns—there being only three slaughter houses for cattle in the district—these are kept in a cleanly state. Samples of various foods, milk, &c., exposed for sale are from time io time taken by the Police, by direction of the East Suffolk County Council, under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts. No action has been taken during the past year under section 117 of the Public Health Act, 1875, and no carcases nor parts of carcases have been condemned for tuberculosis. Sewerage and Drainage.—The houses in your district are for the most part isolated from each other, and except in a few instances do not lend themselves to any systematic scheme of drainage. House drains are as a rule properly trapped and disconnected from sewers and cesspools ; and in most instances each house has its indi- vidual drainage, carried usually to a cesspool situate at some distance from the house, with an overflow into adjacent ditches. Groups of three or four houses are also frequently dealt with in the same way—with a common cesspool and overflow ; but there is nothing which can be called a system of drainage except in the parishes of Mendlesham and Palgrave, in both of which sewers with depositing tanks and overflow pipes have been constructed by your Council; and these are cleansed and maintained by the Sanitary Authority. The system seems sufficient for the wants of the district and is not generally productive