[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Annfield Plain U.D.C.

  • Annfield Plain (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Annfield Plain U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1905. Stanley, February 5th, 1906. Gentlemen, I beg to submit to your Council my Annual Report for the year 1905. Although Coal Mining is the chief industry of the district, yet your Authority exercises no control over its manage- ment, the mines being regulated by special legislative Acts All other industries, however, come under your supervision through the powers given by the Factory and Workshop’s Act. This Act requires systematic inspection by the Medical Officer or the Inspector of all premises where men or women are employed. The chief points in the Act provide for ventilation of work-rooms, proper sanitary requirements, easy exit in case of fire, prevention of overcrowding, and lime washing in certain circumstances, with special clauses relating to public bakeries. Under the term “ Factories ” are included industries where mechanical power is used, as gasworks, brick- works, sawmills, cornmills, electric lighting, and aerated water making, and under “ Workshops ” all other employments. The latter give a total of eighteen, and the former nine. In the manufacture of bricks, no chemicals are used No wholesale bakery is in use, and those for the retail trade are kept clean. Your Inspector’s last report states that “nothing has occurred in connection with the Factory and Workshop’s Act that necessitates any action being taken.” Where the slaughter-houses are kept in a cleanly condition, they give no cause for complaint. INSPECTOR’S DEPARTMENT. During the year, there were 194 new houses built and occupied, and out of this number, 92 were self-contained, and having three or more rooms, and 51 were tenemented, with two or more rooms above, and three or more below. In the former each tenant has his own yard and out-office, in the latter, the sanitary arrangements are common to two tenants. The houses are well built, and the surroundings are satisfactory.