[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Pershore R.D.C.

  • Pershore (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Pershore R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AREA. General pooling of Hospital accommodation for infectious diseases in the County of Worcester is continued. Cases other than Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria are removed to hospitals outside the area of the local Joint Hospital Board owing to lack of cubicle blocks and nursing staff. In practice, this arrangement has worked satisfactorily. SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DISTRICT. Water Supplies. A total of 1,819 houses (4-0% of the population) is supplied with piped water, the main source of which comes from springs on the.Bredon Hills. A supply to the village of Wyre is derived from the gravel beds of the.River Avon, serving 75 houses and about 350 persons. This is included in the first mentioned total. The Bredon supply is chlorinated. .By arrangement with the Cheltenham Corporation an additional amount is furnished, the average daily supplement amounting to about 80,000 gallons. This has been of much assistance as the prolonged drought imposed a severe strain. Three hundred persons in approximately 95 houses are served by standpipes. This represents about 3/° of the district population. There is no question of any plumbo^solvent tendency, and the samples taken monthly have been satisfactory from both the chemical and bacteriological stand points. About 2,330 dwellings, housing 60^ of the population, are solely dependent upon wells, many of which are unfit for drinking purposes. It is hoped in the near future to supply the great majority with piped water derived from the Coventry Corporation’s projected supply from the River Severn. Sewage Disposal. A Consultant’s report is being awaited. It is understood that a start will be made with the Town of Pershcre (in part) and the adjoining parishes. Housing. The Council intend to proceed with the erection of Swedish timber houses in the parish of Pinvin. Their programme for the first two years is to erect if possible firstly 112 and then 90 houses. Several sites have been approved. INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD. Duties of the Food and Drugs Act, 1928~38 are carried out by the Inspector of Weights and Measures. Sanitary Inspectors can also take samples under the Act, All dairies are subject to supervision by the Sanitary Inspector, by whom they are visited periodically. Slaughter houses have not been used since 1939, but in the future consideration will doubtless be given to the making of more satisfactory arrangements than those which prevailed prior to the war.