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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    I t and pure than either of the others. I will now answer your M vera! questions, as far as I can. The shaft is 26 feet deep ; diameter I cannot tell. Depth of bore, 180 feet; diameter of ditto I do not know, nor do I know the diameter of supply pipe. The mode of power to raise water is by pumping. The cistern will I Mil tain about 15 tons. Analyzed, as before stated. Average , ciuantity of water pumped in 24 hours, about 12 tons. Number of years in use, about 18 years. Strata, 26 feet of gravel, 50 feet of clay ; the rest, to the best of my recollection, was sand and black pebbles. I feel assured that you are not making these inquiries from any other motives than you have stated, and remain. Sir, , Yours very truly, W. H. Neale, Esq. Edwakd Paddon. James Adams, Esq., supplied me with the following particulars respecting the well in the Eoyal Clarence Victualling Yard :— Memoranda of the well sunk near the mill in the Royal Cla- rence victualling-yard, for supplying the ships' boats and the tank vessels with water, and also for feeding the boilers of the 40-horse engine that is used for grinding, pumping, &c. Ft. In. Depth of well - - - - - 45 9 (Diameter in clear, 12 feet 5 inches.) Depth of boring, &c. of iron and copper pipes below bottom of well . . - - . 259 6 N.B. The diameters of the iron pipes are, respec- tively, 29 inches, 22 inches, and 17 inches. The lowest pipe is of copper, and is 10| inches in diameter. This last-mentioned pipe passes 27 feet below the iron pipes. (Iron pipes, 232 feet 6 inches ; and copper ditto, 27 feet.) • Total depth from surface - - 305 3 The well will yield 470 tons per day, and the water is consi- dered to be of good quality. The following written statement was forwarded to me by the writer, Stephen WilUngtoJi, who is one of the water carriers in Gosport:— Sir, King-street, Gosport, Feb. 12, IH52. I TRUST you will excuse the liberty I have taken in troubling you, but having a wife and seven children to support, who are entirely dependent on my labour, I am induced to write to you to show the position I am in. For the last twenty years I have supiilied the inhabitants of Gosport with spring water ; during seventeen of these I was em- ployed by Edward Paddon, Esq., but since that time I have worked on my own account. I also rent a portion of the well belonging to Mr. Biden, for which I pay him 16/. per annum, and sell, on an average, six tons per day. I have,- by my own industry, been [78] E 2