[Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Cheadle R.D.C.
- Cheadle (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1940
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Cheadle R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Nov/ liaden Colliory, Cheadle ... Silk Mill, Clieadle ... ... Tean Mill, Toan ... ... Paper Mill, Cheddleton... ... Cheadle Textiles, Cheadle ... Cauldon Lowe Quarries ... ... Blythe Colour Morks, Cresswe.!! ... Co-operative Wholesa.le Milk Dairy, Foie , , FACTOPIFS Am ^/ORICSHOPS. 987 300 654 562 128 150 187 198. There are 130 Factories, Workshops and Workplaces on the register. The V'/orkshors are comprj.sed mainly of boot ?nid shoe rejpairers, bakers and confectioners, milliners, joiners, tailors, wheelwrights, plumbers and decorators, and motor car and cycle agents and repairers. T.Ti rp-ni-D Vi-i 1 3tjp:^liss , The grePtter part of Cheadle Rural District is supplied with water for drinking and domestic purposes from water imdertakinfgs ovmed by the local authority. Water is obtained by pumping from deep wells e.t Teanford, ■Tallmyres and Cauldon. The villages of Alton, Whiston, Foxt, Ipstones, and Kingsley are supplied from springs in various localities, to which small headings have been driven. Other parts of the district, adjoin- ing the neighbouring City of Stoke are supplied by the '^/ater Authority of that City, and Cheadle town by pumping from a deep well in the ovmership of the Cheo.dle(Staffs)Waterv/orks Company. The village of Waterfall and Swinscoe are still dependent on shallow wells, It is the intention of the local authority to chlorinate their main supplies, and to renovate numerous wells so that the water from them may be used in an emergency. Below are given the results of chsmice.1 and bacteriological examina- tions of the various water underto-kings omied and controlled by the local author it 3. CHECMICAL ANALYSIS, 1940. Ipstones Warring- ton. illton • Whiston Cauldon Kingsley Tean. Total Solids dried at 212 10.50 16.50 10.0 13.00 9.50 14.50 18.0 deg.F, Free and Saline ihnmonia 0.0030 0.0015 . Nil. Nil. Nil. 0.0020 Nil. Albuminoid Ammonia 0.0032 0.0022 Nil, 0.0035 0.0015 0.0030 Nil. Nitric Nitrogen 0,10 0.46 Trace Trace Nil. 0,35 0,35 Chlorine 1.2 ■ 1,7 1.4 1.5 1.15 1.50 1.8 Oxygen absorbed in 4 hours at 80 deg.F. 0.041 0.002 Nil, Nil. 0.005 0.005 Nil. _A.ppea.rance Clear C le ar Clear Clear Clear Clear -Trace i Injurious me t alii- ic contaminatioh None None None None None suspended matter None None P.H. Value 6.5 6.2 6.6 6.2 6,2 6.5 ^ , W4 BACTERIOLOGICAL REPORT, 1940. — Ipstones jWerring- i ton 1 jAlton ■ ». . ji.liiston Cauldon 1 Kingsley Tean Count;- On nutrient agar 8 5 cole 1 i- 3 colo- 6 2 4 after 48 hours nles pe: ^nies her ml 1 do. do, CO . do. do. Incubation at C] ml.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29099900_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
