[Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Knaresborough U.D.C.

  • Knaresborough (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1900
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Knaresborough U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ten gullies in private yards—the houses being without slopstones—which had previously been surrounded by un- even cobbles, in which slops thrown at the gulley collected and became a nuisance, have been by your order cemented round for a distance of from two to three feet, and in such a way that the slops can drain into the gulley. This has been a useful improvement. The weekly markets have been regularly inspected, and no complaints have arisen out of the articles there exposed for sale. The slaughter-houses have been reported by the Inspector as being as satisfactory as a number of private slaughter-houses, (in many cases ill-adapted for the purpose for which they are used,) can be. The common lodging- houses have been inspected by him regularly, and he has not found any complaint to make. A few houses have been closed by your order as unfit for habitation. The site for an Infectious Diseases Hospital, in con- junction with Harrogate, has at last been fixed upon. We have successfully averted the danger of having the Infectious Isolation Hospital placed upon the banks of the Nidd near our intake of drinking water. PART III. Lines upon which Improvement may move. Many yards still remain in the town which are paved, and very badly and uneven^ paved, with cobbles. This leads to the collection of slops and refuse in the hollows and among the cobbles, and, therefore, these yards should be asphalted, or repaved and better paved, and the gullies concreted round, so that the slops thrown at them may flow into the gullies instead of, as at present, collecting in stinking pools. There are still many ashpits to privies in the town which are not in a sanitary condition. A great many w.c’s have been substituted for privies during the past few years, and this should be continued in many more instances.