[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Cleator Moor U.D.C.

  • Cleator Moor (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Cleator Moor U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    During the year I visited and inspected all the cowsheds and dairies in our district and submitted to you a special report on them. Our cowsheds and dairies are satisfactory being- well lighted and ventilated, while limewashing is carefully attended to. In all cases the system of drainage slopes to gullies placed outside, and there a copious supply of cold water. There are no milkshops in the district. The milk supply of the district is satisfactory, the conveyance of milk from the producer to the consumer being direct and carted in suitable utensils. I also visited and inspected all our slaughter houses during the year, and submitted a special report on them for your con- sideration. All our slaughter houses are well lighted and venti- lated and plentifully supplied with cold water. All the floors slope to gullies placed outside, and limewashing is carefully attended to. With the exception of the Co-operative Society’s slaughter house and Mr. Ewart’s one in Quarry Road, they are all situated too near dwelling houses. The market is regularly visited by the Sanitary Inspector and myself with a view of preventing the sale of any article of food which might be found unsatisfactory, diseased, or in any way unfit for human consumption, but so far, no interference has been required. The drainage and sewerage of the district is satisfactory and the system employed for the disposal of sewage is that of settling tanks and treatment with lime. There is no pollution of rivers or streams in the district. There is only one common lodging house in the district. It is daily inspected by the Council’s Lodging house Inspector, who reports to the Council at regular intervals. There are no qualified midwives within the jurisdiction of the Cleator Moor Urban District Council, the obstetric practise being carried out by the medical practitioners. I here append the annual report of our Sanitary Inspector, and all I require to say in regard to it is (as all the Council knows) that I have condemned these houses specially mentioned years ago, but owing to the scarcity of houses in the district, we are still compelled to have them inhabited as we cannot turn the inhabitants upon the street. An inquiry was held by the Local Government Board re the scarcit^^ of houses and I understand that the verdict was to the