[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Stirling County Council.

  • Stirlingshire (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Stirling County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DRAINAGE. Under this heading- there is really very little to report. For Cambusbarron any efficient scheme is of course dependent on a generous water supply. For Bannockburn an estimate is to be taken for piping the sewage, after precipitation, direct to tidal water. At Bonnybridge, the Committee have obtained an Engineer’s report with regard to proposed exten- sion of the sewage works, which will now have to deal with the additional population to be housed under the Local Authority’s Housing Scheme. The report is still under consideration. Various improvements and alterations have been carried out under the supervision of the Sanitary Inspectors. FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT. Thirty inspections were made during the year of factories,, and ioi of workshops. Three defects were found, and all were remedied. The defects consisted respectively of want of cleanliness, want of ventilation, and want of drainage of floors. Two lists of outworkers were received. The number of workshops on the register as at 31st December was 54. INFECTIOUS DISEASE. The total number of notifications of infectious disease received during the year was 509. This is by far the great- est number of notifications received In one year for many years. In St Ninians parish there were 284, in Denny 117, and 55 in the parish of Kilsyth, the balance of cases being distributed fairly evenly over the rest of the districts. Scarlet fever, of course, accounted for a great number of the notifica- tions, there, being 267 cases—more than half the total. Of diphtheria there were 76 cases. There were also 76 cases of chickenpox, which was made compulsorily notifiable for a limited period on account of outbreaks of smallpox in various parts of the country. Tables XIII. and XIV. give the figures.