[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Thornbury R.D.C.

  • Thornbury (Gloucestershire, England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Thornbury R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sewage Works in 1943, as the result of complaints by the Council. The plant has been used for experimental purposes by the Water Pollution Research Laboratory and it is now operating satisfactorily on the double filtration principle. Tytherington There are no public sewers. Drainage from indivi¬ dual houses and Council Houses occasionally cause nuisances. A small disposal plant has been installed at the Council School and the same method will be adopted to deal with the council’s new housing development. The village should be properly sewered. Only two full-time attendants are employed at the Thornbury Works. The provision of small sewage plants at new housing sites will necessitate additional staff. As the result of frequent adverse reports on the general sanitary conditions of the district the Council agreed to extend the Consulting Engineers terms of reference, and their report on the sewering of the district has now been received. Schemes have been prepared and submitted to the Ministry of Health for sewerage works at Berkeley, Alveston, Olveston, Redwick and Northwick and Thornbury. The lack of sewers generally is holding up new housing develop¬ ment particularly at Alveston, Almondsbury and Redwick and Northwick. 4. Closet Accommodation. There has been steady progress towards the abolition of privy pits and the provision of improved earth closets and water closets. During the year ten privy pits were converted to earth closets, twenty-one properties were provided with water closets. Despite Building Licence restrictions there has been a notice¬ able tendency by farmers and private householders to instal Hot and Cold Water systems. Bathrooms and water closets. It is to be hoped that this appreciation of modern sanitation will continue. 5. Public Cleansing. Refuse and Salvage collection and disposal by direct labour has continued in operation. Except for two days during the exceptional wintry weather the service was maintained on the
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