[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontypool U.D.C.

  • Pontypool (Wales). Urban District Council.
Date:
1942
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Credit: [Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontypool U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FACTORIES. There are no outworkers in the district. No notices have been received from the Factory Inspector of any defect during the year. Two notices were served ; one requesting additional ventilation, and one for the provision of a heating stove to the workroom. Both notices were at once complied with. All bakehouses were inspected and found to be in a very clean and satisfactory condition. INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Infectious disease cases are visited as soon as possible after notification. Instruction as to isolation is given the householder, and the sanitary condition of the house noted. Where suitable arrangements can be made, patients are isolated at home. Where this is not possible they are removed to one of the Mon. County Isolation Hospitals. After removal of patient, or, if isolation at home, upon recovery, the house, the clothing and bedding of patient are disinfected. RATS AND MICE DESTRUCTION. Poison baits are laid regularly at the Pontyvelin Refuse Tips. No large infestation was found in the district. In three cases rats were reported by householders, and baits were laid. These were successful, and no further complaints were received. ACCUMULATION OF REFUSE. One accumulation was found. This was cleared away immediately after service of notice. ERADICATION OF BED BUGS. No complaints of bed bugs were received, and no infestation found during the year. Your obedient servant, BRYAN GILFORD, Sanitary Inspector.