Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]
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The following table shows the use made of the service during the year.
Quarters | Whole Year | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar. | June | Sept. | Dec. | 1958 | 1957 | |
Individual cesspools emptied | 122 | 129 | 121 | 134 | 206 | 210 |
No. of "jobs" including repeats | 181 | 248 | 219 | 209 | 857 | 722 |
No. of loads removed | 481 | 547 | 548 | 512 | 2,088 | 2,006 |
The total quantity of sewage removed during the year
amounted to approximately 1,252,800 gallons.
DISEASES OF ANIMALS (WASTE FOODS) ORDER, 1957.
The work of licencing and controlling plants for boiling waste
food was delegated by the Kent County Council during 1957. It
is principally designed to prevent disease in animals fed on swill.
Visits have been paid to ten plants known to exist in the
district. It was found that six of them fell within the licencing
provisions of the Order, and accordingly licences were issued.
Opportunity was taken to make some improvements and three
faults were remedied.
DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE.
I am informed by the Engineer and Surveyor that new lengths
of sewer have been completed, or adopted in private estate
development as follow:—
Foul Sewers of 6" and 9" diameters, totalling 170 yds.
Surface Water Sewers of 9", 12" and 18" diameters, totalling 620 yds.
In addition the Council completed in repairs and modification
of existing sewers, the replacement of lengths of new pipes:—
Foul Sewers 6", 9", 12" and 24" diameters, totalling 148 yds.
Surface Water Sewers 9" and 24" diameters, totalling 51 yds.
FACTORIES ACTS, 1937 AND 1948.
Public Health Inspectors have made 266 visits of inspection to
factories, with and without mechanical power, and to building
sites, etc., which are controlled by these Acts. 19 nuisances or
defects were dealt with, some in conjunction with H.M. Inspector
of Factories.