[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.

  • Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tho year 1908 was singularly devoid of anything which calls for special remark, hut it is perhaps worth recording that the new Disinfecting House in Corjtoration Dead, adjacent to tho North End Refuse Destructor, was opened for use on the 19th May. The apparatus is one of Messrs. Oodilaiii, Massey and Warners, and there are ample rooms for stores, in add tion to sheds for keeping the ambulances an 1 vans. A special room has been set aside and provided with a form of spray b ith for disinfecting persons Avho apply to be disinfected under the provisions of the “ Cleaning of Persons’ Act,” and its use has already been called into requisition. In my last year’s Report I called special attention to the dangers of house flies, and the desirability of removing sucli materials as provides them with breeding places as quickly as possible. In this connection I would again repeat that stable manure should not be allowed to remain stored in the ne gh- bourhood of dwelling houses, at any rate during the warm summer months—for a longer period than seven to ten days. But here we are met with a considerable administrative difficulty. In most cases where only one horse is kept the amount of manure made in tho time mentioned is not sufficient to make up a load, and consequently groat difliculty is experienced in getting anyone to come and remove it, owing to the greatly added cost of cartage. If therefore the more frequent lemoval is to be carried out as a saintary measure, it will be necessary for the Sanitary Authority to collect the manure from these smaller places and take it to some convenient Depot from which it will pay farmers to fetch it in the larger quantities. This course I would personally recommend, but wdiether it caii be reasonably carried out or not I must leave for the Committee’s consideration. I consider, howcvmr, that tho new Di-lot .x«r storing the manure from tho street si'-eopings which In s 1 -or.' constructed in Ivy Street ought to bo abolishe as it is n my opinion a dangerous nuisance; the manure xrom this ap is