Wolstanton United Urban District: correspondence with Medical Officer of Health and other district officers
- Located At: Staffordshire Record Office
- Document Reference Number: C/H/3/91
- Date: 1911-1920
- Level: Item
- Extent: (1 file)
- Description: Correspondents include:
Dr W E L Horner, District Medical Officer of Health
W F Slater, Engineer and surveyor
Fred T Poulson, County rivers pollution inspector
W H Makepeace, Borough engineer, Stoke on Trent
Correspondence concerning routine matters and:
- complaint the drainage system at Weymouth at Willoughbridge requiring action from Blore Heath council, Jan 1911
- extract of minutes of the sanitary committee (25 May 1911) re Holditch and Mill Bank sewage farms, Jul 1911
- the council's response to problems with local sewage disposal including the pollution of Lyme brook and the sewage works at Mill Bank farm, Nov 1911
- the use of a continuous filter at Mill Bank [farm] sewage works, Silverdale, Jan 1912
- temporarily stopping the practice of Mrs Elizabeth Brick, a midwife, having an infected finger, May - Jun 1912
- Mr Slater's (district engineer and surveyor) negative response to the County medical officer's report, specifically to Mr Slater living outside Wolstanton, Jul 1912
- article re insanitary conditions in the district after a report by the County medical officer, Jul 1912
- complaint re insanitary conditions at the slaughterhouse at Sparrow Terrace, Porthill, Jul 1912 (see C/H/3/90)
- complaints re ash bin not being emptied at Lydenhurst, Basford Park, Aug 1912, Jun 1913
- a case of phthisis/consumption/TB in an overcrowded house at High Street, Silverdale, possibly being given sanitorium treatment, Dec 1912
- notice of inquiry re funding for sewerage and sewage disposal works, Jul 1913
- the council's response to the County medical officer's special report re sanitary circumstances at Wolstanton, Jul - Sep 1913
- complaint re privies in John Street, Longbridge Hayes, Dec 1913 - Jan 1914
- the loss of the position of a manager at the sewage works due to the war, Jan 1918
- request for the County sanitary inspector to view the nuisance of cesspools at three houses on Church Street, Chesterton due to the case going before a stipendiary magistrate, Apr 1918
- complaint re a nuisance smell at Fowlea Brook allegedly due to sewage, Mar 1919
- complaint re a nuisance smell from a sewer on Watlands View, Porthill, due to faults with the gullies, Jun 1919
- the resignation of Dr Horner as medical officer and the appointment of his successor, Jul 1920
Also includes:
- [report notes?] re Silverdale, Holditch farm, Cross Heath [sewage works?], Feb 1911
- [draft] order of council and notice of inquiry re the formation of a joint hospital area including the districts of Audley, Kidsgrove, Smallthorne, Wolstanton United, and Newcastle-under-Lyme rural district, Oct 1911
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