[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Glastonbury Borough.

  • Glastonbury (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Glastonbury Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Particulars. (I) Number of Defects. Number of defects in respect of which Prose- cutions were instituted. (5) Found. (2) Remedied (3) Referred tc 1 H.M. 1 ' Inspector. i (4) Want of Cleanliness or Whiteliming (Sec. i) 2 Overcrowding (S. 2) .. 0 ' 0 Unreasonable temperature (S. 3) .. 0 0 Inadequate ventilation (S. 4) 0 0 1 Ineffective drainage of floors (S. 6) 0 0 Sanitary Conveniences (S. 7) :— Insufficient I 0 — Whiteliming or Cleansing Required 10 5 — Unsuitable or Defective II 2 — Artificial Lighting Required 14 2 — Not Separate for Sexes 0 0 — Communicating directly with Workroom .. 3 I — Not Readily Accessible 4 0 — Other Offences 0 0 (Not including offences relating to Home Work or offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories 1 and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921, and re-enacted in the Third Schedule to 1 the Factories Act, 1937). 1 I Total 45 12 — Nil * The above inspections were made during October/December, and all matters requiring attention have been communicated to the occupiers concerned. Some were remedied by the end of the year, and further inspections will be made with a view to statutory notices being served where matters have not been attended to within a reasonable time. Outworkers.—Eight firms or contractors in the Borough employ a total of 297 outworkers, many of whom are resident in the districts of other Local Authorities. 14.—NOTIFIABLE DISEASES (OTHER THAN TUBERCULOSIS). Total Cases Cases admitted Total Diseases. Notified. to Isolation Hospital. Deaths. Small Pox .. 0 0 0 Scarlet Fever 5 3 0 Diphtheria 0 0 0 Enteric Fever (including Para-typhoid) 0 0 0 Puerperal Pyrexia .. I 0 0 Ophthalmia Neonatorum.. 0 0 0 Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 0 0 0 Dysentery .. 0 0 0 Malaria 0 0 0 Pneumonia 4 0 3 Acute Poliomyelitis 0 0 0 Encephalitis Lethargica .. 0 0 0 Other diseases notifiable locally: Erysipelas ...... 2 o o