Dr. E.P. Manby's report to the Local Government Board upon the sanitary circumstances and administration of the Urban District of Ince-in-Makerfield.
- Manby, E. P.
- Date:
- 1912
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Dr. E.P. Manby's report to the Local Government Board upon the sanitary circumstances and administration of the Urban District of Ince-in-Makerfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Tiie tanks themselves have settled considerably, and the ter- ]uinal sewer which is stated to have been below the ground level ten years ago is now supported on brick piers 14 feet high. The council are proposing to establish a pumping plant to get rid of the water which threatens to submerge their sewage works. As subsidence is likely to continue, it would be well to establish new works outside the area of subsidence. This may mean going a distance of some miles, but the council will need to face the question seriously ere long. There is but one Common Lodging House in Ince, and it appears to be kept in fair order. Three Bakehouses were visited and were found to have dirty doors. There is no underground bakehouse in Ince. I inspected a number of Dairies and Cowsheds and I found them mostly to be deficient in lighting. The local regulations require that each cow be allowed 800 cubic feet of air space, but this amount does not appear to be obtained as a rule. There is one Marine Store Dealer in Ince who is in a somewhat extensive way of business. Her premises leave much to be desired from a sanitary point of view. The Board have recently expressed their willingness to sanction the scheduling of rag- dealing as an ‘^offensive trade ” in the district of Ince. There is no Slaughter-house in Ince. The Hospital for Infectious Diseases was erected in 1882, and it is capable of accommodating some 14 patients. It is a brick structure, but it is ill-designed in that the two main wards are side by side, and so cross ventilation is impossible. Further, a small ward opens directly into the kitchen. A modern building contains a Goddard, Massey, and Warner’s steam disinfecting apparatus of a size 4 feet by 3 feet by 5 feet. There is a small laundry and a mortuary at the hospital. A corrugated iron building of modern type stands near the brick hospital and contains two wards, each for four beds apparently. This hospital is intended for the reception of cases of smallpox until such time as the Joint Committee, of which Ince is a constituent, have provided a smallpox hospital upon their site at Orrell. The site of the Ince hospitals is surrounded by a wooden fencing some five feet in height. A DMINISTKATKiN. The council have adopted Parts II. and III. of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, the Private Streets Works Act, 1892, and the Notification of Births Act, 1907, and have put in force with the Board’s consent Parts II. to V. of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907. The administration of the Midwives Act, and of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts in Ince is in the hands of the Lancashire County Council.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28143334_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
