[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, St Albans Urban Sanitary District & Rural Sanitary District.

  • St. Albans (England). Urban Sanitary District.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, St Albans Urban Sanitary District & Rural Sanitary District. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    licence of Sir J. Blundell Maple of Childwickbury. It has already been of considerable service to this district in checking the spread of Scarlet Fever, and no doubt its priceless utility will be more clearly demonstrated in the future. I am pleased to mention that the Rural Sanitary Authority has made an arrangement with the Urban Authority whereby the management is vested in a joint committee chosen out of both Authorities, the expenses to be shared in proportion to the number of patients admitted from each of the two districts. I hope the Rural Authority will follow the example of the Urban Authority, and admit all patients to the benefit of the Hospital without fee or charge. I am sorry to say that in spite of the Smallpox epidemic the Vaccination in this district has not been as satisfactory as could be wished during the past year, though very much better than it was in the Urban district. I am pleased to say that the Parochial Committee of Wheathampstead have at last decided to deal with the sewage in a satisfactory manner. In the month of February I inspected 60 cottages in Sandridge New Town, just outside the boundaries of St. Albans, and found them all in a most insanitary condition. I reported this to the Sanitary Authority, and made certain recommendations; but I am sorry to say that all my recommendations have not been carried out. One of the matters I specially complained of was the existence in many of these cottages of w.c.’s without water laid on to them, and draining through unventilated soil pipes into dumb-wells which were also unventilated. It is very important I think that this state of matters should be remedied. During the year I have made various sanitary inspections in different parts of the district,—at Wheathampstead, Harpenden, Sandridge, London Colney, Leverstock Green, etc. I am happy to say that my recommendations in most cases have been carried out. I have visited most of the slaughter-houses in the district, and found everything in a tolerably satisfactory condition. I have visited most of the bake-houses throughout the district, and found in most cases everything satisfactory. I have visited most parts of the district in the course of