[Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1903
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Credit: [Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Following table VII. to the next column it will be noticed that the amount of night soil removed has dropped to 10,4.15 loads. In 1894 it was 34,618, in 1891 it had been 40,302. To these should really be added what is called in the table “rubbish,’' that is to say, the portion of the wet ashpit refuse which is not marketable as manure. The quantity last year was 7,963 loads, against 19,967 loads in 1894, ^.nd 25,151 loads in 1891. x^bout these large quantities in 1891, however, there was a certain amount of doubt, as there had been a tendency .to magnify the amount of work done by our destructors which we used to consume rubbish and dry ashes. The figures in this respect are more reliable in 1894 than in 1891. We may take it however, that the dry ashes, that is the ashes removed from the houses where the water carriage system prevailed, increased from 65,726 loads in 1894 to 155,011 loads last year. The total loads removed, wet and dry and including “rubbish,” had therefore increased from 120,311 in 1894 to 173,389 in 1903. This increase is largely due to the increase of population, the frequency of emptying does not make any real difference to the number of loads removed. Destructors.—The following work has been done at the four destructors :— At x'^rmley Road 27,281 loads of rubbish, weighing 24262'4 tons <'o'Sg tons or 1779 cwts. per load) were destroyed during 305 working days. On an average of 12 cells, the work per cell per day would be 6^63 tons. The highest observed temperature was 1,500° Fahr., * the lowest 500°; average, 1,474°- There were 7,320 observations taken. The firemen employed averaged I4‘2 a day, and the amount turned over by each averaged 5‘62 tons daily.