[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Romsey Borough.

  • Romsey (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Romsey Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SANITARY INSPECTORS REPORT. ' Town Hall, Romsey, May, 1921. TO DR. IL C. BARTLETT, MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH. Sir, Acting upon your request to render my report for the year 1920, I now beg to submit it in a form almost identi¬ cal with that- -of the previous year, and trust that the course now adopted will meet with approval. On Table V., details- of Inspections under the Act, fumigations-, and general work, appear in a classified form, the “ general ” ones being necessarily of a- highly miscel¬ laneous nature. Following these will be found (each under a separate heading), the work a,si set out in the Ministry of Health’s Memorandum, so far a-s my duties- were concerned. Scavenging. Following custom, the removal of house refuse wais a- direct undertaking by my Council, and not through a- Con¬ tractor, ais in earlier yearsi. ■ This was the- natural result of the- Local Autnority’s decision to maintain its, -own stables, team, and carters. The departure took effect in 1915, and ha,s been continued to date, each successive year proving the wisdom of the policy. The division of the Borough into three Districts, and making each one of these subject to two weekly collec¬ tions- of da-y scavenging, and an equal number of nightly collecting and changing of sanitary pails-, continued throughout the year. i