Dr. T. C. Langdon's report to the local government board of the inspection of the sanitary condition of the rural sanitary district of Wells.

  • Ballard, Edward.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Dr. T. C. Langdon's report to the local government board of the inspection of the sanitary condition of the rural sanitary district of Wells. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    30g 6 Recommendations. 1. It is requisite that steps should be taken by the Sanitary Authority to provide the dwellings throughout their district with wholesome water. Where it is found practicable the Sanitary Authority should in the larger villages and hamlets themselves make this provision, and such water-supplies should remain subject to their control and supervision. 2. It is requisite also that measures should be adopted to do away with the various nuisances attendant on defective means of drainage. 3. Sufficient closet accommodation should be provided throughout the district. As opportunity offers, the existing privies1 should be so modified in point of construction that they shall no longer be capable of causing nuisance, and of containing for lengthened periods large quantities of excrement in the neighbourhood of dwellings. Generally in this respect the recommendations of the Board’s Report “ On certain Means of preventing Excrement Nuisances in Towns and Villages ” should be followed, and particularly the' system of excrement disposal for cottages introduced by Mr. Neville Grenville at Butleigh should receive consideration. The advisability of framing byelaws with a view to the proper construction and management of closets should also receive the attention of the Authority. 4. With a view of preventing the spread of infectious diseases in their district, the Authority should provide some means for isolating persons sick of such diseases, and for disinfecting articles of clothing and bedding. 5. It would seem highly essential to a more efficient sanitary adminis- tration of this district that more time and attention should be devoted to the sanitary business than can possibly be done at the end of the ordinary meetings of the guardians. Under a different arrange- ment the recommendations of the Medical Officer of Health would doubtless receive more consideration than they hitherto have done, and opportunity would be afforded for conferring at regular intervals with the Sanitary Officers as to conditions affecting health in the district. LONDON: Printed by George E. Etre and Wili.iam Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. For Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. [4962.—100.—9/79.]