Dr. Airy's report to the local government board on the sanitary condition of Lymington (Hants) urban sanitation district.

  • Airy, Hubert.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Dr. Airy's report to the local government board on the sanitary condition of Lymington (Hants) urban sanitation district. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6 * Recommendations. 1. The Sanitary Authority should without unnecessary delay decide upon the best mode of providing the district with an ample supply of pure water, and should then forthwith take steps to have the necessary works executed. In the meantime any well that yields water so polluted as to be injurious to health should be closed (under section 70 of the Public Health Act, 1875). 2. Seeing that the introduction of an ample water supply would certainly lead to a large increase in the number of waterclosets, and therefore in the volume of the sewage, the Sanitary Authority should provide for such increase by laying down, under skilled engineering advice, a suitable system of sewers with an outfall at a proper distance from the town. The existing sewers, supposing them retained for any purpose, should be thoroughly examined and repaired, and should be properly ventilated in accordance with the principles laid down in the Suggestions of the Board’s Engineering Department relating to this subject, and steps should be taken to abate the nuisance at the sewer outfall in the river. The discharge of sewage into the Woodside brook should be stopped. 3. The Sanitary authority should enforce the strict repression of nuisances arising from ill-constructed, ill-placed, or ill-kept privies. In cases where, by fault of position or construction, such nuisance appears likely to recur, they should proceed (under sections 95 and 96 of the Public Health Act, 1875) to enforce its permanent abate- ment. They should do all in their power to encourage the adoption of earth-closets, or some suitable form of pail-closet, or water-closet (supposing the water supply to be ample), in place of the offensive and dangerous privies now in use. It is advisable that the Sanitary Authority should make provision for the frequent and regular emptying of cesspits, either by scavengers in their own employment or by contracting with an employer of labour for that purpose. 4. Provision should be made for the slaughtering of animals outside the town, at a proper distance from human habitations. 5. Arrangement should be made with the Registrar of Births and Deaths to supply the Medical Officer of Health with weekly returns of the deaths and with immediate notice of any death from infectious disease occurring within his sanitary district, in accordance with the Board’s circular letter of the 23rd March, 1874. 6. The byelaws of the district should be revised, with a view to the adoption of more effective regulations for the cleansing of privies and cesspools, and the keeping of pigs and other animals. In this connexion the Sanitary Authority should give consideration to the model byelaws issued by the Local Government Board. LONDON: Printed by Georgb E. Eybe and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. For Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. [B. 1258.—100.—3/78.]