[Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • North Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1951
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Credit: [Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Leyburn R.D. Sewerage schemes are under construction at West Witton, Hunton, Patrick Brompton and Newton-le-Willows. Sewers at Preston-under- Scaur and Spennithorne have been extended. MALTON R.D. Work has continued on the sewerage and sewage disposal scheme for the Street villages. Hovingham village works are inadequate and inefficient. Northallerton R.D. Sewer extensions have been made in Appleton Wiske, Deighton, Eller- beck, Morton-on-Swale, P.omanby and Brompton. Work on the Romanby sewage works is nearing completion. Richmond R.D. An extension to Brompton-on-Swale sewage disposal works has been completed. Scarborough R.D. The Seamer, Irton, East and West Ayton sections of the area sewerage scheme are now completed and work is proceeding on the Cayton section. Stokesley R.D. The sewer to serve Ormesby and the village of Stainton and Thornton has been completed. Work in the urban areas has consisted of extensions to serve housing development. During the year, staffs of county and local sanitary authorities co¬ operated with the Public Health Laboratory Service in certain investigations connected with research into the presence of the virus of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis). Sewer swabbing was carried out in the Flaxton and Helmsley rural districts and in Loftus and Northallerton urban districts. REFUSE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL. The progressive increase in the number of new completed houses is adding to the cost of refuse collection and disposal, a service which in terms of finance has always been uneconomic, but which has been one of the main props of public health administration. As may be expected the urban authorities with their compact communities have made the most progress with this service ; much improvement is necessary in some of the rural districts, particularly in methods of tipping ; to describe the process in use in certain areas as “ controlled ” would be to use a misnomer. Details of refuse disposal arrangements in county districts are given in the following table:—