Report of the County Medical Officer upon the sanitary condition of the Goole Union (West Riding portion) / West Riding County Council Sanitary Committee.

  • West Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council
Date:
1901
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Credit: Report of the County Medical Officer upon the sanitary condition of the Goole Union (West Riding portion) / West Riding County Council Sanitary Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2(5 GOOLE RURAL. I ]je Rural District of Goole covers an area of 38,238 acres, on which there lived at the time of the last census 7,996 persons in 1,851 houses. It comprises 15 parishes. As these have been dealt with collectively in tabular form and will be considered separately in the following pages, it is unnecessary to make any lengthy comment here, except to emphasise the importance of a good water supply. The water supply of the villages must be considered to be of an unsatisfactory character, being generally obtained from shallow wells, polluted rivers, or rainwater tubs, &c. Truly, there are difficulties, geologically and otherwise, which hinder the provision of a proper supply from local sources, hut these are not insurmountable. Many of the cottagers recognise that their well waters are unfit for human consumption, and only useful for swilling purposes, yet many of the cowkeepers in the same position think the water good enough for cattle. Until a proper supply of pure and wholesome water with its adjuncts is provided there can be little inducement to the younger population to remain in these rural parts. This is therefore the question most urgently requiring to be solved in the Rural District. Wells recently constructed have in most instances been sunk in the Tudor Method, which consists in using special stoneware tubes or pipes having their sockets turned inwards. The bottom tube has its lower edge wedge-shaped and turned outwards, the others have square joints (see sketch). The method of sinking such a well is to dig a circular hole a few feet in depth, into which the bottom tube is inserted ; then a further portion is excavated and the second tube placed endwise on the first one, the joint being made with puddled clay in preference to cement, as such joints are not so liable to break by uneven settlement. The two tubes are then sunk to the bottom, and the process is continued until the necessary depth is reached. The inner flanges are found useful for facilitating inspections and in making repairs to the pumping apparatus. In some instances a bore hole is continued from the bottom of the well to the lower water-bearing strata; the tube portion then acts as a reservoir from which the surface water is excluded. DR TUBE WELL. In the following pages the fifteen parishes of the Goole Rural District are considered seratim, beyond the foregoing general remarks. EASTOFT. This parish comprises an area of 1328 acres, upon which there are distributed 14 houses, sheltering altogether 100 inmates. Its boundary for half its length abuts on Lincolnshire, and, as at Fockerby, half the village appears to be in Lincolnshire. The only resemblance to a village on this side is a cluster of nine houses on the eastern border from which the parish derives its name. The light railway from Luddington to Goole is laid through this locality. Water is procured from wells and house-roofs. A sample analysed from a well gave unsatisfactory results :— Laboratory Reference Number. Hardness Chlorine. Alkali¬ nity. in terms of Carbonate of Soda. Solid Matter. Oxidized Nitrogen. Ammonia. Oxygen Consumed in Two Hours atlOOo C. Remarks Total. Loss on Ignition. Free. Albuminoid 1 Clark’s Degrees. Giains per Gallon. Parts per Million. 2 ... 19-5 4-9 43-4 108-4 18-9 2-28 ! 0-086 0-244 6-86 1 Bad School. The National School accommodates 123 scholars, but the average attendance is 89. The Cloak-room measures 49 square feet, and contains only 61 pegs, arranged in a double row, with two feet between the tiers. Such an arrangement permits of much mixing of the scholars’ clothing, and this is very unsatisfactory, especially in wet weather. In regard to lavatory, there is one small basin for the whole of the school, and the waste-pipe is untrapped.