[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Todmorden Borough.

  • Todmorden (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Todmorden Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Whatever method is used for the purpose of purifying the liquid content in the Sewage, the great problem will always be the disposal of the solid material which is raked out ou the mechanical screens and settles in the various tanks. At the ])resent time much of this at consideral^le cost is being filtered under pressure after having been mixed with lime. In this way a more or less innocuous product is achieved, but I regret to find a certain amount of the “ muck ” is sent to the Tip. This practise will I hope be stopped so soon as the Works are re-organised. Closet Accommodation. During the year 1925, much progress has been made in raising the standard of closet accommodation. In Todmordcn there have been and still are large numbers of tub closets. These in themselves are undesirable and the necessity for collecting their contents adds to the dangers of employing this method of closet accommodation. The following table shows the number of tub closets which have been converted to water closets for the five years ending December, 1925;-1921, 7; 1922, 21; 1923 37; 1924,24; 1925,421. The work entailed in achieving the large number of four hundred and twenty-one conversions during the year 1925, has been very considerable, inspections of premises under the present conversion scheme having totalled for the whole 3^ear just under one thousand. This work has been carried out under an Unemployment Grant Scheme and the Local Authority has paid a half of the expenditure in approved cases. A limit of £10 is imposed as a total to the expenditure which can be approved, that is no subsidy for any single con- vensiou has been more than £5. In the operation of this Scheme there have been Regu¬ lations to prevent any possible reduction in the amount of such sanitary accommodation. There are still a considerable number of tub chcscts remaining and in each case the owners of the property are being informed that they should avail themselves without dela}' of the favouralde circumstances under which the Town are able to have this work carried out as an Unemployment Scheme, and are able to offer a liberal contribution to the expenses incurred by these conversions.