[Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Stamford Borough.

  • Stamford (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1967
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Credit: [Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Stamford Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Discretional (1) Number of applications approved during the year ... 4 (2) Number rejected .. . ... ... Nil (3) Total cash value of Grants approved during the year £1223 (b) Standard Grants (1) Number of applications approved during the year ... 23 (2) Number rejected . ... 3 (3) Total cash value of Grants approved during the year £3928 The reasons for the refusal of the three applications for Stand, rd Grants were as follows: (1) The property concerned was not considered to have a life of fifteen years. (2) The majority of the work had been completed before the application was made. (3) The proposed work involved the conversion of parts of three dwellings into one new dwelling end this was considered to be outside the scope of the Standard Grant scheme. It is interesting to note that in England during 19&7 the average amount of expenditure on improvement grants per head of population was 3s. 3d. The figure for Stamford was ~/s, 10d. per head of population. Moveable Dwellings No new caravan sites were approved during the year. There are only two small caravan sites in the Borough. During the winter months complaints were again received regarding the unauthorised stationing of caravans in one part of the town which appears to be favoured as winter quarters by a number of '’nomads. This is a national problem to which at present there is no satisfactory answer. 2. swimming baths The Borough Open Air Swimming Baths were visited weekly during the swimming season and samples of water from each of the pools were submitted to the Public Health Laboratory at Peterborough for bacteriological examination. In addition to the Borough Swimming Baths, there were three other semi-public swimming baths in use in the Borough during the year. The