[Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, Newmarket U.D.C.
- Newmarket (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1957
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, Newmarket U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(i i) DRAINAGE AND SEWAGE, 40 p ai: o: the rope] gewage of the Urban District (with the exception of i-u-i.es which are drained to cesspools in parts of the District, where a sewer is not available) is treated at the Council’s two Sewage Disposal Works. The Main Works serving an estimated population of 9,000 persons is at Newmarket, giving a D.W.F. of 500,000 gallons per day, and the smaller Sewage Works serving an estimated population of 1,550 is at Exiling, giving a D.W.P. of 5/jOOO gallons per day. Both those works were constructed in 1900 as Contact Bod Systems, but the Main Works have since been adapted as sedimentation tanks with percolating filters and small humus tanks and sludge beds, but owing to complaints received regarding the unsatisfactory effluent from the Exning Works, the Council are to prepare a scheme for a now modern Sewage Disposal Works to replace these works* During the year, the Council have continued their once every quarter free cesspool emptying service with their 500 gallon Scammcll Gulley and Cesspool Emptier to properties not yet on the Sewerage system within the District* As a FilterSo provision against the fouling of the Sewage Works and the Eastern Gas Board deliver gas liquor by tanker and deposit it on the Sewage Works Site, but after proposed alterations at the Gas Works, this will cease during 195 1“ o - O a 4* no u j. b anticipated that the erection of a further block of now public lavatories in the King Edward VII Memorial Grounds will bo completed during 1958. PUBLIC CLEANSING. The cleansing of highways and road gullies, collection of house refuse, shop refuse, trade refuse and salvage, ii previously carried out by direct labour, under the supervision of Mr.F.B.Wate-rfal the Engineer and Surveyor, disposed of by controlled tipping + -i ^nrf on the Newmarket now nearly filled up and it will The refuse 3 Sewage Works site, but this site is be necessary in the near future, to find suitable tipping space elsewhere* In respect of this, the Council have been negotiating for a disused gravel pit at Kennett, about four miles distant from the town. During the year, a total of 1,095 loads of refuse were collected and disposed of on tho controlled tip and the tip is regularly treated with suitable tip dressing as a precaution against the breeding of flies and crickets,etc., and the tip treated regularly for the destruction of rats. 861 part loads of various capacity of Trade Refuse wore brought to the Works by private traders during the year. 7](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29907044_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
