[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Maryport U.D.C.

  • Maryport (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Maryport U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sewerage and Drainage :—The town is efficiently sewered. Un one occasion complaints were made by the residents in the East Ward respecting the escape of bad smells from a manhole in the street vvhen °n the erectton of a suitable ventilating shaft all complaints ceased. I he house drainage might be improved in several places bv talcing out all the defective bottom outlet gullies, where on inspection the dirt boxes are invariably found out and lying in the yards or placed m the wash-houses thereby allowing a direct communication to the sewers, and a free diffusion of sewer air into the yards and surroundings, in place of the gullies mentioned above, side outlet gullies ought to be substituted in their place. But, of course, the difficulty is that the regulations allow of the former being put in. The sewage is disposed on the seashore at low water mark from one outlet. • +i Pollution : —There is not much pollution of streams and rivers in the district, except from an occasional farmstead and a dwelling nouse, which at present are receiving attention. rpi ^.uuse . Refuse is done by public scavengers. Ihe method adopted is a, daily collection, with a covered dust cart, with bell attached, and the householders place the receptacles containing the house refuse m the front or back streets. The dustman empties it the°tide W ^ ^ ’ 1S ta^en to ^ie sll0re> and washed away with i Nuisances : All complaints received are forthwith investigated and the necessary steps taken for the abatement of the nuisance, which have all been carried out without taking legal steps. House to house inspection is also done when time permits, and all nuisances found are dealt with. «|S arie*n o'Ce for 9} Houses Iet in Lodgings. (2) Offensive i lades, (3) Slaughter Houses, (4) Lodging Houses. Under each set here are—houses let in lodgings, ml ; lodging houses, 5 ; slaughter louses, 1 ; offensive trades, 7. No action has been taken, nor further byelaws needed at present. >i fi ^one ky means of an Alformant Lamp, and clothes and bedding done with a steam disinfecting apparatus. Tuberculous In some cases where death has taken place the house is disinfected. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, FRED. PROUD, M.D., M.R.O.S, , -p i ^ Medical Officer of Health. Mary port, Feb. 21st, 1910.