Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the townships of Alnwick and Canongate, in the county of Northumberland / by Robert Rawlinson, Superintending Inspector.

  • Robert Rawlinson
Date:
1850
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Credit: Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the townships of Alnwick and Canongate, in the county of Northumberland / by Robert Rawlinson, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    more maintained by the Duke of Northumberland. Some of these have been fouled by vegetable matter and infiltration. Women carry water from the present fountains, and sell it at one halfpenny per four n-allons, or a 'skeel,' as it is locally called. Mr. Joseph Forster says,— That formerly there was communication with the river, so^that persons could get water, but they cannot so readily obtain it now. Mr. Luke Hindniarsh stated,— For some months the corporation have been very anxious to improve the supply of water; they tried by boring-, but did not obtain the water sought. I think there is no chance now of getting water within the town. Thinks a good supply should be at once provided. Mr. William Burn Sneaks of the Messrs. Black, brewers, who have sunk wells in Howick-street, and bored deeper than the surrounding wells, and have laid several dry. . c « Foul water is thought to percolate into the Clayport pant from drifts in the moor [old coal-workiugs]. Mr. George Wilson, sen., surgeon:— In Bondgate-street Without there is a great deficiency of water, and such supply as there is has been contaminated by some neighbouring drains. Cholera prevails where fever is common. —Large middens offensive.— The mode of emptying them objected to— Mr. rnuip Dennis, surgeon :— « The cholera appeared in those places where fever is generally most common-typhusjcarlatina, &c. These diseases if general, are shown in a more malignant form in these places. I allude to Clayport-street, and TeMediate neighbourhood, Greenbat, &c lyin g a the Wl< • Union-court, &c, on the opposite side ot Uayport-street. in -amongst the muggers or gipsies &c. Ihis Place^J D f fa and generally improved, and we have ^■^.^.m^T^T,J^ since? InlB32 we ^^^^^^^^ ZZ~ttl£&g diarrhea and dysentery were ^Tt^nkSt^revil is the objectionable mode of emptying the large1 midtr.6 1 have.noticedtbatm^^g and^^tol summer, when many middens are emp ed level g J & have remarked this yeai: aft« year lhe m dens a ^ ^ ^ at the time of removal. 1 he large sundae very offensive in hot and damp weather. Imperfect drains complained of. -The following letter was handed in as evidence :- . ^ ^ ^ ^