[Report 1906] / Medical Officer of Health, Tipton U.D.C.

  • Tipton (England : Parish). Urban District Council.
Date:
1906
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Credit: [Report 1906] / Medical Officer of Health, Tipton U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS’ ACT. There are 127 faetories, and 129 workshops on the register. All necessary visits have been paid to home workers. 29 bake-houses are registered, none of them underground. One complaint has been made as to deficient sanitary conveniences; , in some cases the conveniences are of a very primitive nature. The factories and workshops are not over-crowded, and I have not found any of the proprietors employing a child under age. Under the circumstances, the provisions of the Act are fairly well carried out, and there has been no cause for anything more serious than notices to ensure the abatement of nuisances complained about. % Meat—Poor and Unsound. A4uch of the meat sold is very poor and not nutritious ; this is particularly the case in the Great Bridge market on Saturday evening. Many times carcases, much wasted and devoid of fat, have been inspected by me, but I could trace no signs of tubercle. In one instance four quarters of beef, evidently tubercular, were seized by the Sanitary Inspector and condemned by me, the butcher being summoned and fined by the magistrates. The Sanitary Inspector and myself have made many inspections and visits, but there is great difficulty in obtaining a sufficiently clear and definite certainty that the meat seized is anything more than not nutritious, unless there is some palpable sign of tubercle, this is usually im¬ possible, as all traces of tubercular disease are usually removed by the butcher before our visit. Offensive Processes of Trade. The fried fish business is one of the most offensive of our trades. The nuisance arises partly from the fumes not being properly carried up the flues, and partly from the unusable portion of the fish which are not properly destroyed. Of a necessity all of the fish-frying shops have a cowl, but it is not universally successful in abating the smoke nuisance. We have a soap-boiling works which is kept inoffensive. On two occasions a serious complaint has been made as to a nuisance arising from an oil works; this, however, has been abated, and promises have been given that the nuisance should not arise again. Candle making is carried on in one factory, but there has been no complaint.