Dr. Ballard's report on the sanitary condition and administration of the Isle of Wight.
- Ballard, Edward
- Date:
- 1881
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Dr. Ballard's report on the sanitary condition and administration of the Isle of Wight. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![periodically flushed. Where brick drains are decayed or inefficient they should be replaced by pipe drains. 2. Every opportunity that presents itself should be taken for procuring house-drains to be trapped and ventilated, and sink-pipes to be disconnected from them so as to prevent the access of sewer air to the interior of dwellings. 3. The water supply should, where necessary, be extended, and should be given by preference on the constant system. Water should be supplied to closets, not directly from the main, but through the intervention of flushing cisterns. [In respect of the subject-matter of the above recommendations, Mr. Rawlinson’s “ Suggestions as to Plans for Main Sewerage, Drainage, Water Supply,” &c., should be consulted.] 4. Wells should be from time to time examined, and those found to furnish polluted water should be dealt with under section. 70 of the Public Health Act. The powers of section 62 of that Act, with reference expressly to the supply of water, under certain circumstances, to houses without a proper supply, should be duly exercised. 5. New byelaws as to streets and buildings, based on the model series issued by the Local Government Board, should be adopted in each district where they have not already been adopted, and should be carried into effect in such a manner as to secure the dryness, good ventilation, and general wholesomeness, of the houses to be thence- forth erected. 6. The keeping of animals and the business of slaughtering should be regulated strictly by byelaws based upon the model issued by the Local Government Board. 7. Not only should the removal of nuisances be seen to, but steps should be taken under the 95th section of the Public Health Act to prevent their recurrence. It may be convenient to enforce the periodical removal of manure, &c., under the powers of section 50. 8. The scavenging and refuse removal of each district should he undertaken by the Sanitary Authority, who should take care that it is carried out effectually, at frequent intervals. 9. Special attention should be bestowed upon the courts and houses occupied by the poorer classes. Yards which are imperfectly paved and dirty, and dwellings which are in an unwholesome condition through want of lime-washing, defective ventilation, dampness, dilapidation, or other causes, should be dealt with under the Public Health Act, sections 46 and 97. 10. In order to arrest the progress of dangerous infectious diseases, it is of the first importance that each Sanitary Authority should have some means of isolating sick persons who cannot be effectually isolated in their own houses, and with this object the powers conferred by section 131 of the Pulflic Health Act should be exercised. It is also desirable that a disinfecting apparatus and a public mortuary should be available for each district, and that the several Authorities should strictly carry out the provi- sions of the Act with regard to infected persons and things. Each Authority should invariably require a certificate under section 128 before houses or rooms in which infectious diseases have occurred are again let for hire. In additwn to the above general recovimendations, the folloiving special recommendations ap'ply to the respective urban districts :— West Cowes Urban Sanitary District. a. In order that the Local Board may be properly informed with respect to the sewers under their control, and thus be in a position to deal with them, it is very desirable that a complete plan of them should be made, and that definite information respecting their construction and condition should be put upon record. h. The sewage, now discharged upon the mud on the shore from the public sewers and private drains, should be intercepted and discharged at a proper outfall into the sea at such a place and with such jDrecautions as that the discharge shall not create a nuisance. The Local Board should consult some competent engineer with a view to this improvement, and also as to the best means of pre- venting flooding of the lower part of the town with sewage.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24996889_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
