[Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Bacup Borough.

  • Bacup (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1907
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Credit: [Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Bacup Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    68/72 (page 12)
    No schools were closed during 1907 by the direction of your Authority. (11) Bye-laws. The Bye-laws in existence include those regulating: — {a) Common Lodging-houses ; {b) The Cleansing of Footways and Pavements ; (c) The Removal of House Refuse ; {d) The Cleansing of Earth Closets, Privies, Ash-pits, and Cesspools ; {e) The Regulation of Hackney Carriages ; (/) Building Bye-laws ; {g) Bye-laws Regulating Slaughter-houses ; and (//) Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milk Shops. I would refer you to page 5 of this Report for a recommen- dation concerning the need for addition to the Building Bye- laws. (12.) Nuisances: Proceedings for their Abatonent, Whenever a nuisance has come under observation, notice is served upon the person or persona responsible. Such notice gives a detailed account of the nuisance, the work necessary to be carried out for its abatement, and specifying a time within which the work must be completed. If this notice is ignored, after the specified time has elapsed, a final notice is served, and failing attention to that, legal action becomes necessary. In one case only was it found needful to seek the aid of the Courts, and in that, a house unfit for human habitation, a closing order was obtained. (13.) Methods of dealing with Infectiotis Diseases. (a) Notification. In addition to the twelve diseases to which The Infectious Diseases (notification) Act, 1889, applies. Measles was added to the list in 1900, on and from July 1st of that year. In my Monthly Report to your Council, bearing date April 5, 1907, I recommended that Epidemic Cerebro—spinal meningitis— be also added to the list for a short period. Your Council adopted this recommendation, and, the sanction of the Local Government Board having been obtained, this disease was temporarily added to the list. On receipt of a notification of a case of infectious disease, the place is visited with as little delay as is possible. Advice, is given as to the best means of isolation, disinfectants are suppPed where necessary, and their use explained, and printed directions suitable to each form of disease, 'are given to those in charge of the patient detailing the proper method of management, so as to prevent, as far as possible, the spread of the infection.