• Located At: Staffordshire Record Office
• Document Reference Number: C/H/3/25
• Date: 1911-1920
• Level: Item
• Extent: (1 file)
• Description: Correspondents include:
  Walter Henry Allen, Medical Officer of Health
  Dr C H Waddell, District Medical Officer of Health
  W M Clendinnen, Medical Officer of Health
  D Price, Sanitary inspector
  J J Sherman, Meat inspector
  Fred T Poulson, County river pollution inspector
  
  Part A - open access
  Correspondence concerning routine matters and:
  - description of a man contracting TB whilst working at a dairy farm, and his return to work, Feb 1911
  - proposal for constructing an isolation hospital, May 1911; and notice of inquiry re the need for its establishment for the urban districts of Coseley, Rowley Regis, Sedgley, and Tipton, Jan 1915
  - the practice of uncertified midwifes, Mrs Evans, Mrs Townsend, and Mrs Ingleberry, all of Bradley, May 1911; also, Mrs Hannah Davies of Coseley, Mar 1911
  - the position of D Price leaving the district for a post in North Wales, Mar 1912, and attached [copy] of the monthly report of the County Medical Officer of Health re water supply at Cinder Hill, [1895]
  - the practice of Nurse Pickering after attending to a case of ulcer leg, Sep 1912
  - provisions for Moxley hospital, and appointments of a resident medical officer and matron, Oct - Nov 1912
  - the removal of Mr Rhodes from Victoria St to the isolation hospital due to a case of typhoid, Dec 1912
  - the sewage scheme and closet conditions at Coseley after a request of a report from the Local Government Board, Nov - Dec 1912
  - a problem with ventilation at High Arcall Farm, Feb 1913
  - examples of non-compliance to bye-laws for new buildings, Feb 1913
  - accommodation for a TB patient, Feb-Mar 1913
  - newspaper articles heavily criticizing the sanitary situation at Coseley, May 1913
  - a resident's opinion on the state of the parish linking it to the mining operations, Jun 1913
  
  - the isolation of infectious cases at Coseley, and an agreement with Wolverhampton general hospital, Feb - May 1914
  - the removal of nuisance from outdoor closets, Jun 1914
  - the case for the formation of a local joint hospital area for infectious diseases hospitals, Oct 1914, Apr 1915, Jun 1915
  - complaint re the nuisance of deposits of night soil in Cinderhill district, Mar 1915
  - questioning the authority and position of Dr Mostorda and whether he has been officially appointed, Feb 1917
  - a typhoid case at a fish shop on Parkfield Rd, May 1917
  - overcrowding at King Street, Hurst Hill, Regent Street and Pool Street, Woodsetton, and Rose Street, Bradley, Sep 1918 - Feb 1919
  
  Also includes:
  - report for the Coseley Urban Sanitary Authority re outbreak of measles, [Nov] 1911
  - report re Arcal Farm, Coseley and Sedgley, Aug 1912
  - [copy] annual report of the Medical Officer of Health, Coseley, for 1912, Feb 1913
  - memorandum on the reports of mining engineers (Willcox & Raikes), including related correspondence, May 1914
  
  Part B - restricted access
  - notifications of birth, including register of births for three cases, Apr 1917
• Category:Isolation hospitals
• Related Material: See C/H/4/4 for photographs from a report re Coseley
• Access Conditions: Restricted access to Part B only, due to sensitive information - closed until 01/01/2018. Please contact Staffordshire Record Office for further information.
• Ref No: AB01/7/2/1/20

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