[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Northumberland County Council.

  • Northumberland (England). County Council
Date:
1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Northumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nuisances : proceedings for their abatement : any remaining unabated. Bye-laws as to houses let in lodgings, offensive trades, etc. Number of premises coming under each set of bye-laws and action taken. Any need of amendment or further bye-laws. Schools, especially public elementary schools ; sanitary condition of, including water supply ; action taken in reration to the health of the scholars and for preventing the spread of infectious disease. Methods of dealing with infectious diseases : notification; isolation hospital accommodation, its sufficiency and efficiency ; disinfection. Tuberculosis : Methods of control of; whether any system of notifica¬ tion of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, compulsory or voluntary, is in operation. Number of cases notified ; what action is taken in respect of known cases and of deaths. Amount of hospital accommodation for cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in infirmaries and elsewhere for advanced and for earlier cases of the disease. It is stated in the Board’s Memorandum that “ it is expected that each of the preceding points will be mentioned in the annual reports and the extent of action or the absence of action on each of them definitely stated The Board also considers that reference should be made to the administration of the Mid wives Act, the Notification of Births Act 1907 and to the conditions conducing to a high or low infantile death rate in any particular locality. Factories and Workshops.—Medical officers are required to state what action has been taken to remedy any defective conditions met with under each heading ; whether Sec. 22 of the Public Health Acts (Amend¬ ment) Act 1890 is in force in the district, and if so, what standard of sufficiency and suitability of sanitary accommodation is adopted for factories and workshops, also whether all underground bakehouses comply with the requirements of the district council in all respects and to make special reference to the sanitary condition of all bakehouses. Tables provided by the Local Government Board. These, when accurately filled up, contain statistical information of considerable interest and value, and form an important part, of the medical officer’s annual report. In the majority of cases, these table® were included with the report but, in those relating to two rural districts only two of the five tables were included and, in the case of reports from four urban and four rural districts, the tables, though sent to the Local Govern¬ ment Board and the County Council on separate sheets, were not printed with the reports, and were not, therefore, available for the general public. Also from the Statutory Buies and Orders issued by the Board on September 2, 1910, and from the Housing (inspection of district) Regu¬ lations of September 3, 1910, it is evident that the Board expect, from district medical officers, much fuller information than formerly as: to the general housing and other conditions in their respective districts. Particulars are now required to be given, in tabular form, as regards a. the number of dwelling house® inspected ; b. the number of dwelling houses which, on inspection, were con¬ sidered to be unfit for human habitation ; c. the number of representations made to the local authority requiring closing orders ; cl. the number of closing orders made ; e. the number of dwelling houses in which defects were remedied without closing orders being made ; f. the number of dwelling houses put into a fit state for human habitation after closing orders had been made ; r/. the general character of the defects found to exist.
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