[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Stroud U.D.C.

  • Stroud (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1910
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Credit: [Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Stroud U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The average yearly profit (1901-1910) from -the water undertaking has been £787 7s. 3d., including in the expenses the costs of the improvements effected during these years. Minor matters v hieh have received attention and were completed during the year are the supply of four houses at the Knapp, Nelson Street, and the Victoria Inn, Dudbridge, from the town mains. MILK SUPPLY AND OTHER FOODS. The number of dairies on the Register (22) has been increased by two, while the numbers of bake-houses (17) and slaughter-houses (9) are the same as in 1909. As stated in previous reports the greater part of the milk consumed in the Town is sold direct from carts coming from outside farms: the milk stores in the Town were described in my last Report and there is no change to record beyond the opening of the two stores above mentioned, one of which is a dairy shop only and the other was a milk store re-opened: the former is as well adapted for the purpose as is possible in a confined situa¬ tion in the centre of the Town. One prosecution was taken by the County Council during the year in a case where abstraction of fat to the extent of 13 per cent, was alleged, but evidence was brought that the milk was sold as received and the defendant was acquitted. Forty-eight visits were paid during the year to the nine slaughter-houses. FOODS CONDEMNED. The only food stuffs condemned during 1910 were a few vegetables and some fruits. SEWERAGE! AND DRAINAGE. A general description of the sewerage of the Town and of the disposal works was given in my report for last year. The heavy rainfall of 1910 combined with the steep gradients of the hillsides put a heavy strain -on some of the sewers, and caused two to burst, one at Arundel’s Mill and one in Glou-