[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Paul U.D.C.
- Paul (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Paul U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[2] it provides for the laying of proper drains and sewers, and the carrying of the same outside the harbour limits and below low water-mark. Water Supply. The supply of water continues satisfactory in quantity and quality. At Newlyn there has, however, been hitherto much reasonable complaint on the part of a large number of householders as to the distance from which it had to be fetched to meet their daily requirements. Your Board is to be congratulated on having taken this matter also in hand, and on having prepared a scheme for conveying it through the various parts of the town to within a short and reasonable distance of all inhabited houses. Your offer to supply the piers freely with water is no less commendable for sanitary reasons than for trade purposes. The state of the North Pier during and after the arrival of fish in die busy part of last year can only be described as an abominable nuisance, and it is much to be hoped that when a free supply of water exists, combined as it should be with arrange, ments permitting a proper separation of fish-washings from horse-dung, the nuisance will cease to exist. The latrines on the piers, alluded to above, may also be properly and syste¬ matically cleansed, after having been reasonably adapted to the purpose they serve. The insufficiently protected well at Farmer’s Meadows need also be no longer used by the inhabitants, and the Tolcarn stream should finally cease to be a source of domestic supply. Connections will no doubt be carried into many of the dwelling-houses, and into bake-shops, milk-shops, and the slaughter-house, with great advantage to the health of all concerned. Your water scheme for Newlyn is at present under the consideration of the Local Government Board, who, I understand, have asked for the opinion of an Engineer thereon. No doubt as soon as the Water Scheme has been approved the Drainage Scheme will be pressed forward. The former purposes to provide a sufficient head of water to keep the main sewers clean. A proper provision of launders to houses will assist in the cleansing of smaller drains. Flash-tanks, where necessary, will aid the entire process. 8-gallon tanks in the houses may be fixed to flush the few existing water closets and others that may be placed. The same being fixed in the Wesleyan School at Newlyn will readily permit of the establishment of a water closet system, while by carrying the main sewer up Chywoone Hill pipes may be connected from Newlyn Board School closets, and water may be supplied to closet-flushing tanks there by tapping the adit that comes down from Fawgan above. School Closets. The closets at Newlyn Board School and those on the boys’ side at the Newlyn Wesleyan School for the present still consist of highly insanitary cesspits. At the Board School it is often found to be necessary to keep the school windows on this side closed in order to shut out the strong evidence of their close proximity. At Paul Churchtown Board School the pail system is found to answer well, and 1 am pleased to add that the closets are now ventilated, and in as good condition as circumstances permit. In an interview with two of the Managers of the Mousehole Wesleyan School I learnt with satisfaction that, having obtained an enlargement of the premises, they propose abolishing the present unsatisfactory cesspit contrivances and substituting 8 pail closets. It would thus appear that the important question of school closet](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29983782_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
