[Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Chepstow U.D.C. and R.D.C.

  • Chepstow (Wales). Urban District Council.
Date:
1943
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Credit: [Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Chepstow U.D.C. and R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Shops Eradication of Bugs* Rats and Mice. Housing. Overcrowding. Lodging Houses Houses let in Lodgings• Building Byelaws. Milk Meat & Other Foods. No progress in improved sanitary facilities during the year. Two vacated Council houses were dealt with during the year by means of spraying liquid vermicide combined with use of sulphur lamps* Both jobs were successfully dealt with* With the 1919 Act must now be coupled the Infestation Order 1943, whereby the Ministry of Food are campaigning throughout the country in the matter* The Ministry's officials have inspected your area and the result of this action together with reports on the progress made belong to the 1944 report rather than this one. It may be stated however that owners of business premises are keen in some instances, while other business premises owners and most private owners and tenants display a distinct apathy to the question. The Council has been more than willing to issue baits and some increase in the use of this facility can be recorded. 385 rats were caught and destroyed on the Council dunp at Hardwick during the year. Dwellinghouses inspected under P.H.Acts or Housing Acts ... ... 39 Number of inspections made for the purpose 76 Number of dwellinghouses recorded under Housing consolidated Regulations ... Nil Number of inspections for the purpose ... Nil Number of dwellinghouses injurious or dangerous to health ... ... Nil Number of dwellinghouses not in all respects fit for habitation ... ... 39 Number of houses rendered fit by informal action 14 Number of dwellinghouses rendered fit by statutory action ... ... 1 No action. The one Common Lodging House in the area was dosed during the year. One tenement house is kept in a varying degree of cleanliness from time to time, owing to lack of suitable labour to supervise. The question of the continued use of this place should receive early attention after the War. One temporary structure used as a Chapel was licenoed during the year, such lioenoe to be reviewed annually. Re-registration and re-licencing was undertaken during the year, a task long overdue. The position at the moment is : Retail Purveyors ... 7 Wholesale Producers ... 4 Minor repairs to floors were executed at one dairy. Condemned during the year and destroyed :- Sprats ... ... 168 lbs. Luncheon meat ... ... 94 tins Cereals ... ... 3 pkts Unsweetened milk ... ... 51 tins Peas ... ... 2 tins Beans ... ... 31 tins Sardines ... ... 13 tins Self Raising flour ... ... 21 lbs. Potatoes ... ... 77 lbs. Plumbs ... ... 96 tins