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 town of Exmouth / by Thomas Webster Rammell, Superintending Inspector.

  • Rammell, Thomas Webster
Date:
1850
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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 town of Exmouth / by Thomas Webster Rammell, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    repair, and that the supply generally by this mode is in- sufficient. 9. That works have been formed by private individuals in the lower part of the town for the distribution of water to the houses there through a system of pipes on the intermittent ]principle, but that the supply from these works is very limited, at a high rate of charge, and not generally adopted. 10. That a heavy , pecuniary loss now accrues to the town from the hard quality of the water at present in use, and also from the modes by which it is supplied. 11. That the provision for the disposal of the excrementitious refuse consists partly of drains leading to the sea, partly of cess- pools sunk in the substratum, and partly of open cesspits. 12. That many of the drains are nearly filled with deposit, and that their construction generally is very defective. ^ 13. Ihat one of the main drains first discharges mto an open and nearly stagnant ditch on the north side of the town, from which the sewage-water is led through open, channels for the irrigation of some marsh-meadows before its; ultimate discharge; that there are houses immediately bordering; upon these meadows, and that the process, from the slovenly manner in which it is conducted, is extremely offensive and; injurious to the health of the inhabitants of these houses. _ 14 That there is a deficiency of privy accommodation, inso- much that the great majority of the inhabitants of one quarter of the town are entirely without it. , , , . ., 15. That there are several offensive slaughter-houses in tti&' ^^Te' That there is no public service of scavenging, and iDublic yard for the reception of dry refuse ; and that accumu- lations of filth abound in the lower part of the town. 17 That the atmosphere of this part is always more or less^ vitiated by exhalations from animal and vegetable matter ir a state of decay ; and more especially, and to a most offensive, de^^ree, in warm aiid close weather. , , „ „ 18. That the state of the paving and road surface generalh; in the lower part of the town is defective. , 9 That the vagrant lodging-houses are at times muc i overcrowded, and that it is desirable that supervision shoulc ^rTZtZl^r^r.^^^^ of parts of the town lessens it- JLI^^^i^tok and that the inhabitants sustain a pecu. niary loss in consequence. j • f„rn T^nrkhps- 21. That there are five burial-grounds ^« .^he^^^^^^^^^^^^^ three of which are for the use of members of the Es^ab^^^^^^^^^ Church, and the remaining two for ^1^^^^^^^^.' ^^^^^^^^^ these ai'e placed at an i^convement distance fto^^^ but that none of them are much crowded with giaves.
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