[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Paul U.D.C.

  • Paul (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Paul U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [3] accommodation, which I have ceaselessly urged on your attention since the commence¬ ment of my tenure of office, is now in a fair way of being satisfactorily settled all round. Scavenging. It must be confessed that the present scavenging of Newlyn and Mousehole is far from satisfactory. At the beginning of last October your Board thought fit to reduce the daily service of the cart at Newlyn to a 3-days’ visitation per week. It is no doubt a fact that the expense of the daily service pressed heavily on the finances of the town. The result of the change is, however, shown in a marked relapse toward the pristine uncleanliness of the streets, cliff-sides, and surface drain-beds, and in an accumulation of refuse on cramped premises, which cannot but be a source of danger to smaller house¬ holders. The alternative appears to me to lie in the fixing of fitting public refuse recep¬ tacles at proper points. It may then be possible to keep the town clean and the small courtlets and house interiors unchoked by means of the 3 days system of scavenging, to which your efforts are now limited. I note that the majority of pails used by the householders are still unprovided with covers, and that many are in a very dirty condition. The part of Mousehole in and about the Gernick is at times very unclean from the heaping up of piles of refuse. Tredavoe. The village of Tredavoe I find to be in a very unsatisfactory condition. On Mr. Lawrence’s property, close to inhabited houses, I notice a large covered cesspit, with 5 dark, unventilated closet compartments communicating therewith. The slop-water from this property drains into an open ditch on Mr. Leah’s property adjoining. Near here is a small tank which receives a pipe draining unventilated pigstyes, situated a few feet from the high road on the other side. This tank is said to occassionally overflow. The slop-water from the premises on which the pigstyes are placed flows on to the highway and lodges there. All these nuisances occur within a small circle, and all on or within a few feet of the highway. I note, too, that the well at Tredavoe which supplies the drinking water of the village is open to chance contamination, more especially by the feet of those who draw water. Bake-houses, Slaughter-house, Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milk-shops. There are 6 bake-houses at Newlyn, 5 at Mousehole; one slaughter-house at Newlyn ; 10 milk-shops at Newlyn, 5 at Mousehole. There would appear to be dairies and cow-sheds on most farms ( 59.) Instances of each class of premises have been inspected. They were mostly found in fairly satisfactory condition. The slaughter-house is kept clean, and is reasonably adapted for the purpose. All should be registered and periodically inspected. Bye-Laws. No bye-laws are in existence within the district. Some have been, however, submitted to the Local Government Board, and are, as I understand, being printed at their request prior to confirmation.