[Report 1960] / Medical Officer of Health, Driffield R.D.C.

  • Driffield (Humberside, England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1960
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Credit: [Report 1960] / Medical Officer of Health, Driffield R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Street spring Mater Mas rising out of the grouiul and running doMii the street. 'I'liis Mater found its May into the road gullies and the seM’ers heeaine sureharged to such an extent that seMage Mas forced uj) through gullies and manholes loMer doMii the .system, thus creating a nuisance. .'\s a temporary exi)edient a bypass pij)e Mas laid from the manhole op|)osite the Church into the stream and this alleviated the condition to some extent. To my mind the only May of perniiinently dealing with the ]>rol)lem of Hooding at Kilham is to jjrovide a ncM’ .scM’er,age sj'stem M’hich will deal entirely Mith the foul Mater; and this cure may not he far distant as Kilham is one of the next villages to he seM'ered as shoM'ii in tlie pri<yrity list i)ul)lished by the Council. A rejrort on the flooding at Kilham is to be i)resented to the Couneil's January meeting. With the completion and l>ringing into operation of the CransMick/ Wat ton scM crage and scM age disjyosal scheme it heeame necessary for a semi-skilled man to he employed M'holetime to service the electrical and mechanical eciuipment installed at these M’orks. He began his duties on .lunc 1st and is maintaining e(|uij)ment at 'Sheei)man Lane ejector and .'Southgate Pumphouse, CransM’iek ; the ejector and i)umping j)lant at the scMage M'orks at ^^'atton ; the j)lant at the sewage M’orks at North Dalton .and Langtoft ; also the lyiiminng plant at the housing estate, North rrodingham. 'The regular programme of de-sludging open dykes has been carried out, and as mentioned in previous years the amount of time spent on this M’ork became lyrojKyrtionately less with the ('ompletion of the new se^\■erage schemes. Cl.O.SKl' AtXOMMOU.VTION. 'I’lie Council has continued to give grants under Section 1-7 of the Public Health Act, IP.JG, of half the cost of the M’ork up to a maximum of j£l5 each towards converting jyail and earth closets to water closets. 'I'he W.C. conversion grants (()‘2) together with lmi)rovement (irants (1-2) accounted for lOd- W.C.'s being provided in lieu of earth closets. There were f.'J aiyplications for W.C. conversion grants but only 19 of these were comi)leted during the year, the other -Kl being completed from the previous year’s approvals. Slow ])rogress is being made in the abolition of earth clo.sets on a voluntary basis; records show that only .‘10% to 50% conversions have been carried out in the newly sewered villages and, if full advantage is to be taken of the new sewage systems 1 think that eominilsory conversions under Section f7. Public Health .^ct. IhiPi. will have to be ojicrated.