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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![arrangement or construction, and sliould at once make such amendments in either of these respects as may, on his report, appear to be requisite. h. The recommendation of Major Tulloch, with respect to the outfall of the sewers, for the carrying out of which recommendation a loan has been already sanc- tioned, should be carried into effect at once. With kespect to the Sanitary condition of the Rural Sanitary District of the Isle of Wight. n. The Sanitary Authority should deal with obvious nuisances much more actively than they have dealt with them hitherto, and overcrowding shall be repressed. When houses are so dilapidated that it is impracticable to keep them clean, measures should be taken to procure their repair or to close them if they are unfit for habitation. h. Where it is apparent that in any villages excrement and drainage nuisances can be satisfactorily abated and their recurrence be certainly prevented only by the provision of sewerage, the Authority should make this provision and deal effectually with the sewage. They should also take measures to prevent the pollution of streams by sewage. c. When sewerage has been already provided, means should be adopted for the free ventilation and periodical flushing of the sewers. The various faults of con- struction and management pointed out in the body of this report should be remedied. d. The water supply of the district should receive special attention, polluted wells should be closed, and action with regard to proper supplies should be taken under the Public Health (Water) Act or the Public Health Act, 1875, as circumstances require. [With regard to the subject-matter of the recommendations (5.), (c.), and (<7.) Mr. Rawlinson’s “ Suggestions as to Plans for Main Sewerage, Drainage, Water Supply, &c.,” should be consulted.] e. In respect of those parishes where much building is taking place, the Sanitary Authorities should apply to the Board for urban powers to enable the'm to make byelaws regulating the construction of new houses, so as to ensure their being so built as to be wholesome and fit for habitation. /. It is very desirable that means should be available for the isolation of persons attacked with dangerous infectious disease, who cannot be effectually isolated.at their own homes. On this matter the Office Memorandum on “ Local arransfe- ments relating to Infectious Disease ” should be consulted. The provisions of the Public Health Act with regard to infected persons and things should be carried out, and the Authority should invariably require a certificate under section 128, before houses or rooms in which infectious disease has occurred are again let for hire. D.—With respect to the Administration of the Rural Sanitary, Authority. Considering the importance of the sanitary functions of the Authority to the health and prosperity of the whole Island, and the danger, if those functions continue to be neglected, of the spread of epidemics which will be costly both in life and in money, it is desirable that more attention should be devoted to these sanitary functions than has been possible at the brief fortnightly meetings hitherto held after the meeting of the Guardians for Poor Law purposes. Unless the Authority are prepared to have special weekly meetings for sanitary business, they should take advantage of section 201 of the Public Health Act, and annually delegate their powers to a committee of their own members, selecting for the purpose such as are most likely to attend regularly. A sanitary committee so constituted might meet fortnightly, or even more frequently, and might be specially summoned at any time in case of emergency.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24996889_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
