[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, West Hartlepool County Borough.

  • West Hartlepool (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, West Hartlepool County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INSPECTIONS AT PUBLIC ABATTOIRS, &c. Visits made to Abattoirs • • • 254 Bakehouses • • • 37 W orkshops < »« 86 Common Lodging Houses... • • • 48 >> Milk Shops • • • 210 5? Cow Sheds 80 >> Steam Navigation Warehouse • • • 58 773 SCAVENGING. In Nos. 1 and 2 Districts the Scavenging of the Borough has been done with very few complaints. In District No. 3 it has been otherwise, serious and numerous com¬ plaints having been made of the work not being attended to regularly, and of the Contractor causing the foul refuse to be deposited in his fields abutting on to the public highway, and in front of villa residences, which has caused your Inspectors a great deal of unnecessary work and journeys to Seaton. Such filth and offensive matter should not be allowed to be deposited near the highway or dwelling houses to the annoyance of the inhabitants or the public, and which, after being spread in the field cannot be very well gathered together again and removed, and the section dealing with it carried out. If it was prohibited in all cases from being deposited near dwellings inside the Borough in inhabited districts, such serious complaints would not arise. In this district no accurate amount of the number of loads of privy and ashpit refuse removed by the contractor can possibly be given. Being a farmer, he deposits it on his farm or farms adjoining Seaton Lane.