[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Sculcoates R.D.C.

  • Sculcoates (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Sculcoates R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There are no wholesale or underground bakehouses in the district. MEAT INSPECTION AND INSPECTION OF SLAUGHTERHOUSES. The old established slaughterhouses are registered, and the newly established ones licensed, The Council, having some time ago, adopted the bye-laws relating to these premises. These are regularly inspected, and also the carcases in them, and the shops belonging thereto, and neither the Sanitary Inspector or myself have ever seen anything of a doubtful character offered for sale. I should like to say the Sanitary Inspector, some years ago, passed the examination held by the Royal Sanitary Institute as a Meat Inspector, and obtained a certificate from that body. SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS, 1875, 1879, AND 1899. The Council not having appointed an Inspector under these Acts, no samples of food or drugs have been taken. I think it might probably be advisable if an Inspector were appointed, especially for the purpose of taking samples of milk, as this is an article which lends itself to easy adulteration, and also it is an article of diet largely used by infants and invalids. SEWERS AND DRAINS. As a whole the district, with the exception of Preston and Holderness Road, Sutton, is well sewered. Referring to the latter, within this last three or four years about seventy houses have been erected, many of them having baths and several of them W.C’s.,