[Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Wirksworth U.D.C.

  • Wirksworth (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1903
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Credit: [Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Wirksworth U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    o might be usefully emploj^ed from dinner-time in removing horse dung. The town is adequately supplied with public water taps. To prevent waste a push-tap was tried, buf did not answer. It is proposed to try a lever tap. Water.—I need not remind you that we are entirely dependent on the rainfall for our water supply. From an interesting statement sent me by Mr. Gibbs, of Bridge House, we learn that the maximum rainfall occurs between Septem¬ ber and January. Average rainfall at Bridge House in each month of the year for the last ten years. Septembei- . October . Novembe]' . . 3.09 . 3.61 . 2.98 inches y ? December . . 3.83 Januarv . . 3.17 February . 2.36 March . 2.60 April . 2.22 9 Mav . . 2.00 9 J une . . 2.12 July . . 2.72 9 August .. . 2.97 9 Our springs are at their highest point between September and January, vegetation and evapo- raton absorbing the rainfall from April to August. In the year under notice we had an exceptionally wet Summer, with a temperature below the average (the mean maximum never exceeding 66.5° F.). There was a constant supply of water throughout the year, except between August 1st and 22nd, when the yield of the springs dropped to 3813 gallons per hour, and the water was turned off during the night. The following are your Water Bailiff’s monthly returns of gallons per hour flowing into the reservoir in 1903 : — Month. January .. Februar^' Alarch .... April . May . June . July . August .... September October .. November December Gallons per hour. . 8487 . 6273 . 8942 . 7749 . 9102 . 6519 . 4296 . 3813 . 7257 . 16,546 .. 13,051 . 11,947 From the following rainfall return you will see how immediately the springs vary with the rainfall, showing that tTiere is no storage in the gritstone from which the springs are de¬ rived. %=» .