[Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1899
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Credit: [Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    H9 Kind of closet in whole group.—In the whole group of 5,386 houses, contained on both pages of the table, 2,406, or 44*7 per cent., had some kind of ordinary water-closet; 1,344, or 25’0 per cent., had troughs; 1,593, or 29‘6 per cent., had middens or pails, whilst the 43, or O'S per cent., houses without drains, are not classed in the table, although it may be stated that 6 had trough water-closets, 36 had midden privies, and 1 had a pail. Grouped as severed and not.—Of the 2,406 houses with ordinary water-closets, 1,716 occurred amongst the group with the drains severed, and formed 540 per cent, of that group. The 690 which occurred amongst the non-severed (leaving undrained houses out of the group) formed 308 per cent, of that non-severed group. Of the 1,344 trough-closet houses, 688 belonged to the severed, 656 to the non-severed group- corresponding to percentages of those groups of 217 and 30'2. Of the 1,593 midden or pail houses 770 belonged to the severed, 823 to the non-severed group, forming 247 per cent, of the former and (again leaving undrained houses out of account) 37'9 per cent, of the latter group. Put in another way, the 2,406 water closeted houses were nearly three-fourths of them severed in other respects from the sewers, that is to say, 71 per cent, were, 29 per cent, were not so dealt with. The 1,344 trough closeted houses were rather more than half of them severed from the sewers, more exactly 51 per cent, were, 49 per cent, were not. The 1,593 midden and pail houses nearly reversed this order, 48 per cent, being severed, 52 per cent. not. Kind of closets in through and other houses.—It is interesting to note (and this is information never given before) what was the relation between the different classes of house— th roughs and back-to-backs—as to the kind of closet found in each.