[Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Rochester City and Port.
- Rochester (Kent, England). City and Port Authority.
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Rochester City and Port. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Perhaps you will kindly let rae hear from you at your early convenience. I am, Dear Sir, Faithfully yours, APSLEY KEYNETTE, Town Clerk. The final result of this attack is shewn as follows : — Number of wells still used for domestic purposes .. ... ... 8 Company’s Water laid on hut wells not closed ... ... ... 12 Wells permanently closed ... ... ... ... ... ... 12 82 In the opinion of your Medical Officer, the removal of a pump handle or the doming of a well is not sufficient to call the well closed. Such wells should be filled in with chalk. This would prevent any future attempts by ill advised persons to again use the water, as has been done on several occasions. The S.E.R. water tank is ordered to be more frequently cleansed and the tank has been covered in. A list of the houses which are fitted with stool valves and taps in direct communication with water closets has been ordered to be prepared with the view of waste water preventers being required. GENERAL SANITARY CONDITION OF THE DISTRICT. The number of notifications of infectious diseases received was considerably less than in the previous year. Your Sanitary Inspectors were therefore instructed to proceed with house to house inspection. This work has already been productive of much good. The Public Urinal constructed at St. Margaret’s Banks is greatly appreciated. A like convenience is much needed at the bottom of Bryant Road, Strood. The removal and dealing with house refuse is at present a work causing expense and no return whatever. It is possible to convert this into actual profit resulting in lower rates and sanitary progress. With the adoption of a proper system of cell destructors with competent boiler &c. your Council could burn up this refuse—providing material for making ])atbs &c.—generate steam for disinfecting apparatus, and light their own works by electricity from the energy produced from ash refuse. Lower Deice Farm is slowly but surely being hemmed in by dwellings. The farm buildings are old, and the farm yard is a constant](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30038613_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
