[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Bury (Union) R.D.C.

  • Bury (Greater Manchester, England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1894
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Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Bury (Union) R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    also by myself. During the house to house visitations I make it a rule to enquire and examine when necessary the quality of the milk consumed by the family. I invariably found the quality, as estimated by its cream per centage, good, but the quantity purchased for use, small. My notes state that 68 families only purchased a total of 44 quarts per day for food—this, I have endeavoured to impress on parents, is false economy, and it would pay them well to increase by three times their purchases, even if they cut down the cost of tea and tobacco to cover the extra cost of same. The public Schools inspected were found much more satisfactory than last year, but the small class rooms were close and stuffy when occupied at the time of my visits. It is difficult to recommend a suitable and practical way of ventilating these small rooms, which for short periods of the day are very much overcrowded, without causing strong- draughts of cold air under ever varying conditions of wind and temperature, but the Hinks-Bird plan of fixed or loose extra bottom sash, with free entrance of air at middle of window, appears to present fewer objectionable features than others more elaborate and much more expensive. The water supplied to the district by the Bury Corpora- tion was on the whole less objectionable than last year, but this was principally owing to the meteorological conditions that prevailed during the months of June, July, and August. I collected a number of samples from various places within our boundary, they all showed a high per centage of total solids, and contained abundance of vegetable matter, true, this dirt was of an innocent character, but nevertheless, was very objectionable. I am of opinion from past experience that the Bury Corporation has no intention to make any