[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.

  • Staffordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as it resulted in the removal from the stream of practically crude sewage from a population of about 12,000, but in the latter case nothing has yet resulted. For some time, as the Council are aware, the question of the pollution of the Hockley Brook at Uttoxeter from waste from two dairies has been the subject of negotiations with the District Council, which resulted in a local enquiry being held by the Ministry of Health, the outcome of which was that the District Council were urged to come to an arrange¬ ment with the respective manufacturers to allow of their wastes being discharged into the sewers. This proceeding the County Council had previously urged and it is to be regretted that the District Council, notwithstanding pressure from the County Council and from the Ministry of Health, have determined not to fall in with this suggestion. The result is that the pollution continues, and it is difficult to see how it can be remedied unless the local authority change their attitude and afford facilities for the dairy companies to connect with the sewers. The District Council gives, as a reason for not complying with the suggestion, the risk which the introduction of the wastes in question would involve as regards possible injury to their sewage disposal plant, but neither the County Council nor the Ministry are of opinion that there is any ground for such fear. During the year under review, among other matters, special reports have been presented with reference to the sewerage and water supply of Gnosall Heath in Gnosall Rural District, and the sanitation of Knighton village in Blore Heath Rural District. Apart from these, no reports have been presented upon the systematic work carried on by the sanitary staff, one ’s attention having been confined merely to reporting circum¬ stances as they arose in order that they might be dealt with by the Committee from time to time. In addition to this a con¬ siderable amount of time was spent by the staff in acquiring detailed information regarding the sanitary conditions of various areas which were involved, or were likely to be involved, in the question of the extensions of County Boroughs and other urban areas.