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Veterinary Inspections
No Licences were issued under the Contagious Diseases of Animals
Acts.
Five inspections were carried out under the Contagious Diseases of
Animals Acts as follows:—
Three being for suspected Fowl Pest, totalling 41 fowls.
Two for Store Pigs coming to the Borough, totalling 20 porkers.
Two inspections were made under the Riding Establishment Act, 1939.
The number of horses and ponies inspected was sixteen.
No action was necessary under the Tuberculosis Order, 1925.
MOTHERCRAFT TRAINING SOCIETY
It is with very real regret that I record that Cromwell House, the
headquarters of the Mothercraft Training Society, was closed at the end
of July. It was founded in 1918 and its chief function was to teach the
feeding and rearing of infants according to the principles laid down by
Dr. Truby King.
Cromwell House was known all over the world and health visitors and
others have visited there during their courses of training. Midwives and
nurses from all over the country attended demonstrations on infant feeding
and courses were arranged for expectant mothers.
The Society specialised in dealing with the feeding of "difficult" babies
both as in-patients and through their out-patient clinics. They advocated
and promoted wherever possible the breast feeding of infants. A training
college for nursery nurses was also run by the Society.
For over thirty years Cromwell House was financed by voluntary
contributions, but greatly increased costs of recent years, coupled with a
falling off in contributions, made it necessary for the Society to close.
OPEN AIR SWIMMING POOL, PARK ROAD
I am indebted to the Borough Engineer and Surveyor for the following
information:
Break-point chlorination has now been in operation at the Open Air
Swimming Pool for over two seasons and the results are considered to be
satisfactory. The object of chlorinating swimming pool water is to maintain
it in a sterile condition and reduce to a minimum the risk of transmitting
water-borne disease or infection. To do this effectively a supply of
chlorine must be available in the water so that bacteria may be attacked
immediately and ammonia compounds destroyed.
The water in the Pool is pumped on to filters which strain out suspended
matter and keep the water clear. The chlorine is added on the
return journey together with other chemicals.
The original system, which was superseded, was that known as marginal
chlorination, and the concentration of chlorine was between 0.1 and 0.2
parts per million. In this system the chlorine first combines with the
ammonia, with the result that it is a combination of chlorine and ammonia
which attacks the bacteria. The action of these compounds is considerably
slower than that of a "free residual" chlorine.
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