[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Withington Local Board District / U.D.C.

  • Withington (England). Local Board.
Date:
1898
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Withington Local Board District / U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In other instances in which the privy-ashpits, although not actually in contact with houses, were very near them, and by their aggregation were rendering the back-yards and passages offensive and injurious to health, notices have been issued to convert the privies into water-closets. Altogether during the year, notices have been served upon owners to substitute water-closets for privies in 125 instances, and when these notices have all been complied with, the result will be a great improvement in the sanitary condition of several closely-built blocks of property. Summary of action of the Health Committee daring the year. Notices served for the alteration of insanitary properties . ... 222 Insanitary properties altered without notices. 44 Notices, etc., on account of filthy premises . *. 7 Notices under Dairies and Cowsheds Orders. 28 Notices to enter premises under section 41 of the Public Health Act ... 14 Notices, etc., on account of injurious and foul accumulations : Nightsoil tips . 2 Manure heaps . 7 Other injurious accumulations. I Notices, etc., on account of animals kept so as to be a nuisance. 1 Notices, etc., on account of overcrowding . 1 Notice, etc., in connection with slaughter-houses . 1 Notices, etc., in connection with the sewers . . 3 Notices, etc., in connection with stables. 7 Notices, &c., on account of filthy streams . 5 Premises inspected as to their sanitary condition after cases of infectious fever .112 Premises smoke-tested. 24 Premises inspected, but no action required . 8 Back passage reported, and referred to the Highways Committee ... 1 Inspection of grave at Chorlton-cum-Hardy Parish Church. 1 Water analyses . 17 Milk analyses. 17 Butter analyses . 4 Legal proceedings on account of insanitary properties—order and costs 6 16s. 6d.). 5 Legal proceedings on account of exposure after scarlet fever—fine and costs (£ 1 4s. 6d.). 1 Food seized and destroyed as unsound and unwholesome—geese. 10