[Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, King's Norton & Northfield U.D.C.

  • King's Norton and Northfield (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1903
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Credit: [Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, King's Norton & Northfield U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In addition some are so arranged that the operations can be viewed by children from the outside, an essentially wrong state of affairs. No meat was discovered in any instance that was considered at all bad. MEAT INSPECTION. Although no meat was seized, in four cases I was called in by the owner to inspect doubtful specimens. Two of these were passed as fit for food, viz., a calf at North- field, and a pig at King's Norton. A bullock carcase with Generalised Tuberculosis was condemned at Selly Oak, and at Woodgate the carcase of a bullock, which had been ill from a disease resembling Anthrax, was also destroyed. The supervisiqn of pig killing is not well carried out in this district, as the chief part of it is done on unlicensed premises. This is, of course, illegal, although it may be thought to be hard on people in rural districts not to be allowed to kill their pigs on the premises. An additional trouble is the difficulty of moving pigs when the Swine Fever Order is in force, as it is so often. CANAL BOATS ACT. For the first time, efficient inspection of Canal Boats, under the above Act, has been carried out in the district. Not less than 172 were examined, compared with an average of about 40 per annum during past years. In 35 boats, contraventions of the Act were found, and notices served to have them remedied. The Act enforces the proper sanitary condition of all residential canal boats, as regards air space, ventilation, and contamination of living cabins from a noxious cargo. Overcrowding of the limited space allowed by the Act is the chief form of contravention. SMOKE ABATEMENT. Little work has been done in this connection, and no complaints have been received.