[Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Milnrow U.D.C.

  • Milnrow (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1967
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Credit: [Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Milnrow U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MILMROW urban district council Annual Ronort of tho Public Health Inspector for the year 1967 Mr. Chairnan, Ladies and G-entlonen, I have much pleasure in submitting to you my fourth Annual Report. In February, Mr. R. Mills commenced duties as a full-time Meat Inspector. ihis appointment had been found necessary in order that lOCRb meat inspection could be maintained at the four slaughterhouses, the situations of which are widespread throughout the District. The introduction oi controlled hours of slaughtering in August further assisted the maintenance of full inspection. Two objections were made, to the Council*s proposals to impose the hours of 8.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.n. Monday to Friday, in respect of the slaughterhouses at Fern '.oil 82, Huddersfield Road and in considering these objections the Minister ruled that the hours proposed be extended to include 8.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.n. Sat. The owners of the slaughterhouses at Bridge Street and 106, Huddersfield Road not having lodged an objection adhered to the hours originally proposed. In my opinion, if adequate, temperature controlled storage space was provided, Saturday slaughtering would be quite unnecessary. Apart from emergency killing, which is permissible outside controlled hours, there have been very few requests for slaughtering to be carried on at times other than those enforced, the reasons given for the requests have been seasonal demands, e.g. Christmas, and tho delay or breakdown of vehicles delivering animals, etc. In every case the request was agreed to. While I had hoped to be able to report a greater reduction in the number Cj. pail closets in the District, there has at least been some reduction, there now being 100 such closets compared with 110 last year. None of these closets are situated within reasonable distance of a sower, the provision of septic tanks would therefore be necessary. The number of enquiries received regarding the installation of septic tanks suggests that the rate of decrease of pail closets will be at least maintained and possibly accelerated. There was some reduction in the mileage travelled by the refuse collection vehicles, this was the result of the replacement of the 11—13 cu. yard rear loading vehicle on one round by a larger capacity ^0 cu. yard dual tip collection vehicle, this reducing the number of journeys to the tip. The introduction of this vehicle was also partly responsible for the improved service during the year when, during the latter part of the year, a weekly collection was maintained. The credit for this improved service must however be mainly due to the collectors themselves. The improvement dates back to the tine when new crews were formed round tho small nucleus of conscientious men already employed, the new teams then maintained a high standard of collection often in atrocious weather conditions and took some pride in claims made by ratepayers that you can set your clock by then. There has been an increasing number of residents taking advantage of the free service provided by the Council for the removal of bulky household waste, e.g. furniture, cookers, etc. I feel that this service has done much to reduce indiscriminate dumping throughout the District. Since becoming responsible for the removal of abandoned vehicles in the second half of the year, the Department dealt with 20 such vehicles. 17 of these were removed by owners after requests from the Department and 3 by the Council. A great deal of tine, and consequently ratepayers money, has been ivasted by both the Health Department staff and the Police in tracing owners of abandoned vehicles, it is hoped that more car ov/ners will bo deterred from dumping their vehicles by the hoa,vy fines now imposed by the Civic Amenities Act, and will take advantage of the rcnova.1 and disposal service offered by the Council. cont* d • o •