[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Weston-super-Mare Borough.

  • Weston-super-Mare (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Weston-super-Mare Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OVERCROWDING. Housing accommodation has been heavily taxed. Many houses have been sub-let, and constant changing conditions have made it difficult to keep in touch with all cases that have arisen, and every effort on the part of the Health and Housing Departments have been made to deal with bad cases of overcrowding which have increased on the return of men demobilised from H.M. Forces. SMOKE ABATEMENT. Two complaints were received during year. These have been dealt with and it is hoped that there will be no recurrence of this trouble. RATS AND MICE (DESTRUCTION) ACT, 1919. The local campaign against the brown rat has now become somewhat established inasmuch as the public are now co- operating more freely than hitherto, due no doubt to the extensive propaganda distributed and broadcast nationally by the Ministry of Food. The Borough of Weston-super- Mare is lightly infested as a whole and certain premises receive regular routine inspections for rat infestation, particular attention being paid to producers and retailers of food. All farms, piggeries, and smallholdings within the Borough of Weston-super-Mare receive regular inspections, and some twenty-three such premises are at present under contract with the Somerset War Agricultural Executive Committee for rat treatment over a period of twelve months. Your Refuse Tips are treated on a quarterly basis and the infestation has been reduced to a very low level. The proposed sewer treatment has been unavoidably postponed owing to labour difficulties, but will no doubt be carried out in the immediate future. Ministry of Food Methods of Treatment have been used in all treatments and a high measure of success attained thereby. FACTORIES, SHOPS, ETC. There are on the register 136 power factories and 86 non-power factories. Routine notices were served twice yearly for the lime-washing and cleansing of bakehouses, and the works were carried out.