[Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Glossop Borough.

  • Glossop (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1967
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Credit: [Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Glossop Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE DISEASES OP AKCM/lLS ACT, 1950 AKD ORDERS MADE THEREIMDER The Chief Public Health Inspector is the Inspector appolntod under the Diseases of Animals Act, 1950* There were no local outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease, Fowl Pest, Swine Fever, or other notifiable animal diseases. Forty-foirr movement licences were issued during 1967- Throughout Great Britain the approximate figures supplied by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for various diseases were:- Table 5 Animals Outbreaks Deaths Slaughtered Anthrax • • « • • • 458 484 0 A.trophic Rhinitis • • • • • • Foot & Mouth Disease • • • • • • 2,209 400,751 Fowl Pest ... ... • • 0 • • 9 198 Sheep Scab • • • • • • Swine Fever • • • • • • — There were 2,209 outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease compared with 54 last year. Fowl Pest increased in number, 198 outbreaks in I967 compared with 194 in 1966. Anthrax outbreaks increased in number from 222 outbreaks with 258 deaths in 1966 to the stated 458 outbreaks involving 484 deaths in 19^7. * Provisional figures WEATHER The rainfall for Glossop for. the past seven years is set out belows Summary of Tainfall (in inches) i960 19.61 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 J anuary 6.51 5.81 4.62 2.13 1.76 4.46 2.025 2.72 February 2.91 2.62 1.86 0.77 1.56 0.735 4.83 2.71 March 1.24 2o34 4.84 2.79 4.09 1.335 2.25 2.19 April 2.40 3.79 3.78 5.27 2.88 3.345 2.50 1.69 May 2.01 1.96 3.40 3.05 2.50 2,83 3.34 4.97 June 1.77 2.27 0.82 5.18 3.70 2.59 4.36 2.31 July 6.51 3.81 2.09 1.99 4.41 5.27 4.59 3.31 August 5.02 5.19 6.15 5.57 3.88 5.365 4.20 6.02 September 5.99 2.33 4.47 4.43 2.00 8.11 5.89 5.00 October 5.45 5.62 1.71 3.38 2,85 1.93 3.24 6.65 November 5.57 3.52 2.33 5.91 2.90 3.685 5.13 5.95 December 4.43 3.28 4.18 0.76 5.45 10,715 6.42 4.17 47.71 42,54 40,25 59.23 37.96 48,17 46.775 45.67 The general rainfall over England and Wales in 19^7 was 58.7 inches, 109^ of the annual average over England and Wales of 55*6 inches for standard- year period I916 - 1950*