[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council.

  • Cambridgeshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REGULATED PREMISES. Common Lodging Houses.—There were 131 visits of inspection paid to the 10 registered premises in Cambridge Borough, and four contraventions of the bye-laws were detected. In the rural area there is only one common lodging house, at Soham in Newmarket Rural District. Canal Boats.—In Cambridge Borough eight visits of inspection were paid to five Canal Boats, and notices were served in two instances for infringement of the Act. Legal proceedings were taken in one case for failure to comply with the notice, and fines were inflicted. Slaughter Houses.—To the 27 slaughter houses in Cam- bridge Borough 1,704 visits were paid ; seven defects were remedied. In all the rural districts inspection is stated to have been systematically carried out. In Chesterton Rural, structural and drainage improvements were effected on three premises, and in Swavesey Rural five occupiers were required to limewash. Factories and Workshops.—Reference to this subject is omitted on this occasion from the reports from several Districts, but speaking generally inspection has been systematically carried out. Apart from bakehouses, record is made of the remedy of various defects in Cambridge Borough (52), Chesterton Rural (9), Melbourn Rural (9), and Swavesey Rural (2). No prosecutions are recorded. Remedy of defects in bakehouses is also noted. Offensive Trades.—Reference is made to inspection of the knackers’ yards in the Chesterton (1), Linton (1) and Newmarket Rural District (2), but there is no item of special interest.