Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the parish of Alverstoke, in the county of Southampton / by William Ranger, Superintending Inspector.

  • William Ranger
Date:
1852
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Credit: Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the parish of Alverstoke, in the county of Southampton / by William Ranger, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sulphates and less carbonates than ^;he itwo .former, No. 4 being & very hard water in comparison with the others. Mr. Byles furnished mc with the following statement respecting ; the well at Haslar-street brewery :— An unbounded supply of pure soft water is obtaiined from the well in HasJar-street. An idea of its softness and purity may be formed upon inquiry of the inhabitants, who use it in preference to any for its good qualities. It is impossible to form an idea of the vastness' of its supply. Some years isittce, when the well was opened for the purpose of cleaning out, the' plug in -the pipe was imperfectly fixed, and the well was puimped by horses full speed, and as many hand-pumpg as could be. possibly used for four days and four'nights, without making any- visible decrease of water; and had not the plug at last been pl-ojJerly fixed, so that the supply was stopped, it never would have .beem emptied to this day. The following are its dimensions :— The depth of the lhaft brick and cemented is about 30 feet. Diameter ^ , - ^ , ■ ' ' - 12 „ • DeptK^oftHeibbrr-' - . - -191 „ Diaiieter of the bore - . - - about 8 inches. There are two liquor backs, one of 100 barrels, the second 150 barrels, not either adequate for the supply of a town. A liquor back of from one to two thousand, barrels would not be too large. The water is at present pumped by horse power, but a steam- engine is now in course of erection. The depth of the well - - - 30 feet. Hard blue clay - - - - - 45 „ Heavy sand and flow of hard water - - 5 „ Blue clay*. - - - - - 50 „ Loose sand and water (hard) - - - 11 » Blue clay, very firm (into a bed of fine siliceous sand) ■ - - - - 50 ,, 191 Intermixed with either pebbles or flints producing an abundant supply of pure soft water. The following written statement respecting the weU in Wind- mill-row was furnished me by Mr. Paddon, its owner :— jgjR Stoke-road, near Gosport, Jan. 9, 1852. In reply to your letter dated yesterday, I beg to say that I am most wiUing to give you every information in my ])ower relative to my well at Gosport. I commenced digging from the surface in the year 1833, and it occupied six months before 1 suc- ceeded in obtaining soft and pure water, at the expense ot 600/. It was then analyzed by Dr. Henderson, at Haslar Hospital, as well as water from the other wells which supplied Gosport, when he decided, in the presence of Mr. Hewson, that mine was more