[Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds (England). City Council.
Date:
1899
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Credit: [Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5 more readily to the improvement. It was the portion of the district with the highest death-rate, and the sanitary advantage will probably be even greater than in the southern half. Hoi beck area,—A certain amount of progress has been made in the Holbeck area. Five buildings were certified by your Medical Officer as “ obstructive,” and it was resolved that they should be purchased and demolished. The purchase of several others has been arranged for, and negotiations are in progress. In a few cases where the purchases are practically complete, some of the demolitions have already taken place, but in the majority the actual removal of existing buildings is being delayed till others of the same group have been con¬ veyed to the Corporation, and the provision of additional closet accommodation is being attended to at the same time. House and nuisance inspection. — During the year the Committee resolved to increase the strength of the staff of inspectors, one special object being their desire to press forward the house-to-house inspection of the town, and the testing of drains referred to in previous reports. It is now arranged that each inspector shall devote four afternoons a week to the house-to-house examination of his ward testing the drains of every house so examined. To give the extra time thus required the ward inspector has been relieved of that portion of his duties concerned in the oversight of alterations ; this work is now in charge of four inspectors, each having supervision of structural changes in four wards. Two women inspectors were also appointed, one to look after the workshops where women only are employed, the other to take supervision of a district. One of the new inspectors appointed is a Hebrew, and speaks Yiddish. He is specially charged with the supervision