[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Northampton County Borough.

  • Northampton (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1894
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Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Northampton County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the enforcement of the same. Representations relative to two insanitary workshops and a factory formed the subject of special reports submitted to the Town Council. In the case of a workshop in Lawrence Street, alluded to in one of the reports, I advocated the discontinuance of its use as a workshop on account of its palpable inhygenie surroundings and unsuitability for the purposes for which it was utilized. My advice was acted upon, and the pro¬ prietor, a shoemanufacturer, was required to acquire other more healthy and suitable premises. In a few cases I was requested by the Factory Inspector to inspect factories, with the object of taking proceedings for the removal of insanitary conditions existing thereon. Information of this nature received by me from the Factory Inspector was invariably promptly acted upon. There were in the course of the year 880 visits and inspections made. At the termination of the year 1894 there were 454 workshops on the register, being 159 less than in 1893. The reduction is induced by the closing of a considerable number of workshops in which the shoe industry was carried ou, the workpeople having been compelled to discontinue out-door work and to work in the factories—by a new trade regulation which came into force at the commencement of the past year. A detailed summary of the sanitary wmrk effected in connection with factories and workshops is given in the appended table. Nature of Nuisance. Notices served. Nuisances abated. Notices on books Dec. qi, 1894. Overcrowding S3 47 6 Absence of closet accommodation i 1 . . . Want of separate closet accommodation for sexes 4 4 Closets requiring flushing apparatus 64 45 19 Offensive closets, drains, &c. 29 29 ... Offensive accumulations 5 5 . . . Insufficient ventilation 5 4 1 Filthy and dilapidated workshops ordered to be cleansed and repaired ... 89 88 1 Workshops without supply of drinking water... 3 2 1 253 225