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

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

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    pointed out to the Council the desirability of utilising this supply if possible, when the Camp is abandoned, for the supply of the area surrounding it, and especially for the better supjily of Ash and Tilstock villages, each about a mile distant from the Camp in different directions. The Council has the matter under consideration.” * EXCREMENT DISPOSAL. The following extracts from the Annual Reports deal with this matter ;— Bridgnorth Urban.-—” There are many houses with one w.c. in common for two or more houses. There are 327 houses which have between them 139 w.c.’s. Tn the rural portion of the Borough earth closets and vault privies are the rule, and are.emptied by the tenants,” Clcobnry Mortimer Rural.—“ There is no public scavenging clone in the district either for ashes or night-soil. The tenants make their ovn arrangements. The Inspector has had to serve numerous notices to remedy nuisances arising from offensive accumulations, the result of the unsatisfactory way the present system works. Some arrangement is, I think, advisable for doing the scavenging by contract at Cleobury Mortimer.” Da-d'ley Urban.— The number of water closets is 138, earth and pan closets 136, and prixies 1,044. Ten priedes were converted into earth closets during the year and two into water closets. In the absence of outfall works to deal with sewage matter, the policy of the Council is not to press for conversions into water closets, but to get all privies with suitable surroundings made into pan or earth closets.” Ludloxv Urban.—“ All the houses in the centre of the town are provided with water closets, and but few privies remain on the outskirts. These until recently have been reduced yearly, but owing to the lack of labour conversions have not been possible during the year.” Rcuport Urban.—‘‘A total of 56 conversions were carried through during the five years 19^5—19^9* 3Jid the figures at the end of the year are therefore :—w.c.’s 672, privies 86 pail closets 18.” - ’ , Oakengates Urban.—The Sanitary Inspector states that 41 water closets were installed during the year and four pans and 28 privies abolished. This leaves the position at the end of the year as follows :—974 privies, 305 pans, and 601 water closets. At the present rate of conversions it will take forty years to abolish privies and pan closets in the district. The com¬ pletion of the housing scheme will enable a large number, probabl}* one hundred and fifty, to be done away with, but there remains a very considerable surplus that owing to their insanitary conclition could be dealt with at once as nuisances, and it seems advisable to press for their con¬ version at once, in \aew of the unwieldly problem that the scavenage of the district has recently become. An attempt should be made to clear the district in sections, and those houses dealt 'vith that are in good sanitary condition, and those that may be closed and demolished in the iiear future left over for the present and the privies repaired.” Shifnal Rural. At Shifnal there are 4*^*4 ater closets, 80 ])ri\’ies and 26 pan closets, 3.t Albrighton water closets and 100 privies. Eleven privies were converted into water closets during the year, and this sanitary improvement is pressed for whenever possible in both places.” '