[Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council.

  • Shropshire Council
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1919
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Credit: [Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The water from tliis source contains .i large nninber of vegetable f)rganiMns at limes, a;al it is i)r<ti)osed to remove this by meajis of pressure fillers hi (he near future. The water was .i:. il\>e3 by TTofessor Dclepine of Manchester University during tlic i'ear, and jironounced to be a '.lit.ible water for domestic use. p ■■ The Borehole hi Slang Lane gives the third source of supply. Wlien first put <lown this pl.int j'.umjied 9,000 gallons per hour, but for some time not more than 5,500 have been raised. Ti.v water is pumped directly into tlie distributing main from tlie Wrekin service reserv’oir. ■■ Puring the last quarter of tlie year the sujqily from Wrekin was so short that pumping was :.ec<'-'ary tlaily, and the water was cut off at night from 7 o’clock to G in the morning. Following aSmilar cN}iericnce in previous years, the Council decided to sink a further borehole about 40 north of the existhig one, and this work is at jirescnt in progress. “ The demand for water must of necessity increase largely in the near future, seehig that more than a hundred new houses are planned for erection in the immediate future in the water area, „iid double this number are required to complete the housing schemes of the urban district and fhfi.I'ari^hes of Ketley and Hadley, which are dependent on this .supply.” ]Vt!!i)igion Rural.—‘‘ Parts of Hadley and Ketley are in the Wellington Urban Water .\rea, gLixcli'-' l ive their supply from that authority’s waterworks. .\t Hadley about So per cent, of the hous ' in the village and on the line of the mains from Wellington have their water from this Sour. e. anti the remainder are in possession of w'ells. Practically all the houses are connected to tWn m.iins at Ketley village and Ketley Brook. ■' Other parts of Ketley Parish along the Lawley Bank and Lawdey Village are supplied by S^i'l jtijtes from the Harrington Wells belonging to the Borough of Wenlock, the water passing tWrougli Hawley mains to a small reservoir at Dawley Bank. The water from both these public Souit e- is of good quality and analysed periodically. The Wellington supply to Ketley and Hadh y is as a rule constant, but w'as turned off at night) for a period in the autumn as a pre- cauni>nar\-measure when the level of water in the Wrekin reservoir became very low. During This period also the pressure at the higher parts of Ketley was sometimes verj' poor. The Wel- hAgp.n Urban Council are at present engaged in sinking a second bore-hole, which, it is expected, viH u'ive a much larger amount of water than the previous bore-hole and will enable them to m.tke the service constant throughout this year. This will enable the Council to abolish the rtmauiing wells in the populous part of Hadley, which can only be a source of danger, where so m.tiiy privies exist on a porous subsoil.” Wenlock Borough.—” In Much V’enlock some scarcity of water is experienced at times in the v.« 11 <u]))jly to the town, and the Committee m 1919 had under consideration again the possibilities <if in<Tta'ing the supply by addmg water from the ‘ Spout ’ in Stretton Road. The Committee KulJ !hc water analysed in August bacteriologically, by Professor Delepinc. It came out with the lo-A total number of bacteria of 16 per gramme. Bacillus coli, however, was found present in oree,pr.imme, and as it appeared probable that this contamination might arise from cattle present tn the field over and around the spring, the Committee had the outlet area fenced off and a well shaft built from the spring to the surface. The question of development was then left for further analv'es to be made. .\n analysis by Professor Delepine in November showed coj^siderable uiipiovi-ment, the B. coli not being found in 15 grammes of the water.” Whitchurch Rural.— Ash Village h as water laid on by the Council, from a private wind and tank supply, to a pump and a .stand pipe at two points. In times when theie is no wind iKC. upply has run short, and the Council has had to send a steam pump in order to fill the tank.'.” ^ ^