[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Northumberland County Council.

  • Northumberland (England). County Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Northumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sanitary Legislation. The principal public health measures coming in force during 1925 which were of administrative interest to county councils were :— The Public Health Act, 1925.—Sections II. to V., relating to Streets and Buildings, certain Sanitary Provisions (in relation to drains, sewers, tents, vans, etc., offensive trades), Verminous Premises, etc., Water¬ courses, Streams, etc., are adoptive. The remainder of the Act comes in force automatically. The following provisions affect county coun¬ cils :— Section 61.—Provision of hospitals.—The Minister of Health may empower a county council, under Section 2 of the Public Health (Pre¬ vention and Treatment of Disease) Act, 1913, to' provide or arrange for the isolation and treatment of patients suffering from infectious disease. Section 62.—County councils (and local authorities) are empowered, under certain conditions, to remove to hospital, compulsorily, patients suffering from tuberculosis who are in an infectious condition. Section 66.—Blind Persons.—County councils may make arrangements for assisting in the prevention of blindness and for the treatment of persons suffering from any disease of or injury to the eves. Section 67.—Propaganda.—County councils (and local authorities) are empowered to undertake propaganda work in relation to public health. The Housing Act, 1925.—This Act is chiefly a consolidation of the law in relation to housing. County councils are empowered, in certain cases, to act in default by a local authority pursuant to the authority of the Minister’ of Health; to promote the formation of or assist public utility societies whose objects include the erection, improvement or management of dwelling-houses for the working classes; provide dwelling- houses for their employees ; and, subject to the provisions of this Act, advance money in respect of the construction or alteration of dwelling- houses. The Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915.—This Act came in force on September 1st, 1925, by the operation of an Order of the Ministry of Health. The Act empowers county councils to stop the supply of milk, in their area,, which is likely to cause tuberculosis, and imposes upon them the duty of the inspection of dairies in certain cases and the enforcement of the prohibition of the sale of tuberculous milk for human consumption. County councils may also- be called upon to act, in default by district councils, in relation to the registration and supervision of milk producers and vendors. Orders. Circulars, Memoranda, Etc. The principal Orders, Circulars, etc., affecting county councils dealt with the following subjects :•— The Tuberculosis Order, 1925, provides for the slaughter of animals affected with certain specified forms of tuberculosis, and for the pay¬ ment of compensation to the- owners. It is a corollary to the Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, the principal objects of which are to put out of use for milk production, and, indirectly, to compel the slaughter of cows giving tuberculous milk or suffering from tuberculous udder or tuberculous emaciation. The Tuberculosis Order, 1925 (No. 2) pro¬ hibits the removal for human consumption of the carcase of an animal slaughtered under the Tuberculosis Order without the written consent of the Medical Officer of Health or other competent officer of the Local Sanitary Authority. Treatment of Tuberculosis.—Co-operation of Local Authorities with Boards of Guardians; suggested appointment of county tuberculosis officers as consultants at Poor Law Institutions. Preston Hall Colony.—