[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Swinton & Pendlebury Borough.

  • Swinton and Pendlebury (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Swinton & Pendlebury Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from us, with the result that only in a few cases has it been necessary to resort to legal proceedings in order to compel com¬ pliance with the requirements of the law. The important item in this connection has relation to the state of the yards, which we may take it will now be speedily dealt with, and the paving of back passages. The latter is obviously important in con¬ nection with our system of privy middens; a system which, although it may have some few advantages, is one which most practical sanitary reformers agree in condemning, as largely conducive to the production and fostering of such diseases as enteric fever and diarrhoea, especially in the midst of crowded, populations aggregated together within small areas. The bakehouses in the district have been visited by me, as well as the dairies, cowsheds, and milkshops, as time and oppor¬ tunity have enabled; also the few workshops which have to be inspected by me under the provision of the Factories and Work¬ shops Act. With very few exceptions they are well attended to, and their occupiers are always ready to adopt any suggestions for necessary improvements, where such have been pointed out. With regard to the dairies, cowsheds, and milkshops, I should like to observe that the work of inspection throughout so exten¬ sive a district as ours involves the expenditure of a considerable amount of detailed attention and time on the part of any one individual, if such work is to be thoroughly and satisfactorily accomplished; and looking to the great importance of this matter and to the large number of these establishments to be systema¬ tically looked after it would be well if some arrangements could be made whereby I could receive adequate assistance in my investigations. Particularly so in the matter of taking the cubical capacity of the various sheds and buildings, and in enforcing the observance of regulations which have been made and adopted for their proper management. I beg to recommend and advise that in the case of every dairy, cowshed, and milkshop in the district a copy of the Local Government Board’s regulations, which at the outset were adopted here, should be forwarded to each owner with a request that