[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Hoylake U.D.C.

  • Hoylake (England). Urban District Council. nb2013027123.
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Hoylake U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FOR THE AREA Public Health 0fficers. Medical Officer of Health JOHN HATTON M , D., D.P»H•/ Senior Sanitary Inspector JOSEPH McKEOWN M. S, I. A,, Cj.R.S.I. Additional Sanitary Inspector JOHN HaMEACHIN M.S.I.A,, A.R.S.I, Clerk MISS. Pc GRANT Clerk F.K, HARROP* The Medical Officer of Health is also Medical Officer of Health to the Urban District Councils of Neston and Wirralo Laboratory Facilities* Ambulance.Facilities« Nursing; in the Home. Treatment Centres and Clinics3 Hospitals., Public and Voluntary? There has been no change in these services during the year. Legislation in 'Force. No new Acts or bye-laws’were'adopted during the year, SANITARY' CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA, water, ; The district receives its, supply partly from the Council’s own Waterworks and partly from the West, Cheshire Water Board’s Works, In both cases the supplies are controlled by'quarterly chemical and bacteriological examinations and those examined during the year have been highly satisfactory. Both supplies are now chlorinated. Samples taken from a well'supplying two houses in Greasby were found upon chemical and bacteriological'examination to be unsatisfactory A piped mains supply has been installed,' DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE#. The extension of the sewer from Frankby to Irby Mill Hill was completed. Main sewers have now been made available throughout the who! of the area to all except the most'isolated'dwellings and farm buildings The drainage systems to ten dwelling houses were nonn^Gued to the sewer and the cesspools abolished. RIVERS AND STREAMS Pollution of a watercourse was found to have occurred in one instance as a result of the connection of the sanitary conveniences at one section of a camp to the surface water sewer. The necessary re- connection to the main sewer was carried out without delay. Two other sources of pollution were removed by the abolition of cesspools,