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Reference Number496.5 BA9360/E27/Box 2/1
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/1/2/12/4
TitleGeneral Health Committee
DescriptionHandwritten minutes of the committee. Matters discussed include: nuisances reported; tallow making; analyses of food and drugs; storage in winter and general maintenance of the bathing barge; petroleum licences; bills; duties and appointment of a nurse at Barbourne Hospital; provision and condition of privies, water supply and drainage; overcrowding in houses; Barbourne Lodge Hospital; monitoring of death statistics for incidences of disease; sale of animals/meat unfit for human consumption; auction of bedding from a house possibly infected with fever; bye-laws; analyses of food, beer and water supply to check for adulteration or contamination; ventilation of sewers; condition of slaughterhouses and proposed new public slaughterhouse; suicide of the Inspector of Nuisances and appointment of a replacement, 1881; registration of canal boats; prosecutions brought; cleansing and emptying of cesspits, ashpits etc; keeping livestock and animal by-products; coroners inquests; smoke from pleasure steamers; Explosives Act 1875; vaccination in schools; Factory and Workshop Act 1883; compliments and complaints from patients treated at the hospital; schedule of works to replace privies/water closets giving street, description, owners' and occupiers' surnames, and number of water closets to be provided; and reports of and steps taken to contain outbreaks of contagious disease (particularly Typhoid Fever, Smallpox, Scarlet Fever and Typus).

Alphabetical index in the front of the volume. Cover torn slightly.
Date1879-1887
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