[Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Cheadle R.D.C.

  • Cheadle (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1940
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Credit: [Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Cheadle R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    aepressed v/ater level being 95 ft. frora the surface. The chemical ahd bacteriological analysis of the v/ater indicated that the water contained a high iron content, also that bacteriologically the water showed some remote sewage pollution. The work of lining the borehole has been delayed due to the lining tubes being unobtainable. It is anticipated, however, that after sealing off water entering the borehole at a depth of 56 feet from the surface some considerable Improvement in both analyses v/ill be shovm. Chlorination Plants. Chlorination plants are being installed on all the Council’s nine water schemes. The method of treatment being the injection of Sodium' Hypochlorite solution in the water raaiiis.' In some cases the water is treated prior to entering the Reservoir, this apnlies only to the small capaeity reservoirs where the c-onsumption per day is greater than that of the capacity of the reservoir. In other cases the water is treated iimaedlately it leaves the reservoir The dosage of the treatment is approximately ,2 parts per million. The plants, however, have a very wide range, and if necessary the dosage can be increased to as high' as 1 part per million. Housing. No, houses erected during the year. . .. REPORT SITHMITTEH PY YQHR SANITARY INSPECTORS. The past twelve months has been chiefly devoted to the billeting of children and others from evacuation areas' an^ also to the keeping of records of payment in t’his connection under the Government Evacuation Scheme. This has been a full time job, and consequently it has not. been possible to make any routine Inspections and only that public health v/orl; which was of urgency has been done. ' ■ , The i/ork of inspection of meat normally carried out by your inspectors at the various private, slaughterhouses within this district has, for the time being, been passed to the Meat Inspectors at Hanley and Leek Abattoirs, as under the Ministry of Food, meat for the v;hole of the. areas is now distributed from these central depots. The only carcases killed ;Within the district are those taken for post mortem examinations by'the Ministry of Agriculture under the Tuberculosis Order. The-inspection of shops under the Shops Acts is now also part of the duty of your .San i tar.y Inspectors, and visits v/ere made to many of these during 'the year, . ' . . . ' . . . , Insnection Visits. General inspection, visits to houses affected by notices, shops, interviews,'etc 4 ... ... To.petroleum stores ... To farms and dairies • • '... To investigate cases of infectious disease To bakehouses' and foodstores ... To’ slaughterhouses ... ■ ... To. factories and workshops . .'. ... To offensive trades • ^ , ... _ , . re po'llution of streams/ ... ...• < re connections to sewers •••'/’' ■ - Summary of notices served and notices complied •Hi . 930 6 40 84 10 50 15 38 20 21. Public Health Acts. served complied with. -■ ' Informal notices . . .■■ . 71 60 , Statutary notices... ; ... 14 16 , by L.A, in default... 1 Notices to scavengers ... .... « • « 180 Table I. No. of connections made to sewers ... • t • 12 No. of obstructions removed from drains... • • • 10 No. of accumulations removed ’ ' ... • • • 12 No, of nev/ ashbins provided... ... • • • 52