[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Bournemouth County Borough.

  • Bournemouth (England). County Borough Council. nb2004301338.
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Bournemouth County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CEEMATOEIUM. In December last the Crematorium Committee reported to the Council adversely on the establishment ot such a method for the disposal of the dead. Your Authority seems to have been influenced by a report from the Borough Surveyor of Manchester, and they recommended the Council not to establish this method in the County Borough. This, in my judgment, is not in accordance with the highest sanitary opinion. It is certain that this method is slowly gaining ground in the United Kingdom, and in the most up-to-date sanitary districts. I still live in the hope that before many years are past the Council will see the desirability of establishing such a method in this Borough and not to continue to rest content by fouling the earth by the slow process of dessication and resolu- tion by the bodies as at present. However suitable the dry and gravelly nature of our soil may be, there are some dangers to the living by such a continuance, and the space or ground now available in the two cemeteries may, in a few years time, become too limited. WATEE SUPPLY. I append herewith a report of an analysis of our Public Water Supply. Both on analysis and bacteriolo- gically it indicates that the water is a good potable water and well suited to a town supply. The experienced and skilful management of so im])ortant a town’s necessity is well looked after by the able officials who represent the Iras and Water Company, and any suggestion which we, as an Authority, may make to them, is immediately attended to. W^e keep a very close and continuous su[)er\ision on this commodity, and usually monthly analyses are taken. LI8TER INSTITUTE OE PREVENTIVE IMEDICINE. December 2n(l, 1908. Report on Examination of a .sajnple of Avater received from Rournemouth on November Orel, 1908.