[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Greenock Burgh.

  • Greenock (Scotland). Burgh Council.
Date:
1925
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Greenock Burgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    37/56 (page 37)
    laMe XI. gives particulars of persons accommodated month by month during- the year and shews that 385 persons belonging- to 85 families were accommodated, the average stay being- 12 1 days. 168 of the persons had been in contact with Scarlet Fever, (i with Diphtheria and 20G with Typhus Fever, ot which 69 were accommodated in the temporary De- ception House at Craigieknowes. PUBLIC HEALTH (REGULATIONS AS TO FOOD) ACT, 1907. There was no importation of foreign meat at Greenock during the year, and active steps were, therefore, not neces- sary. FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS. There are 259 workshops on the Register kept by the Local Authority in terms of Section 131 of the Factory and Workshops Act, 190l. 426 visits of inspection were made and in 24 instances the premises were found to be disconform to the sanitary re- quirements of the Act in respect of want of cleanliness; un- suitable or defective sanitary conveniences; breaches of sani- tary requirements as to bakehouses and other nuisances. 27 intimations under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, were served on the occupiers and also upon the owners in certain cases. The terms of the notices were duly com- plied with. There was only one firm in the Burgh employing out- workers and the usual lists of outworkers were furnished in the months of February and August. These lists respec- tively contained the names and addresses of 84 and 89 out- workers. In each list two outworkers were shewn as resid- ing outwith the Burgh and the Local Authority of the ap- propriate districts were duly informed. The work performed by the outworkers was principally sewing and crocheting and their homes are maintained in satisfactory order. NUISANCES. In connection with nuisances under Section 16 of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, I was not called upon during 1925 to inspect any premises on which the Sanitary