Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the town of bromyard, in the county of Hereford / by Benjamin Herschel Babbage, Superintending Inspector.
- Babbage, Benjamin Herschel.
- Date:
- 1850
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the town of bromyard, in the county of Hereford / by Benjamin Herschel Babbage, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Pump-stvect, At the end of this last street it may be tui into the existing open watercourse near the tan-yard, and j being carried across Sherford-street in a culvert, it ma led into the meadows below the Independent chaxjel ft ancient outfall. As iip sewage should be allowed to mix this watpr, it vyoul4 not be offensive, and the inconveni which at p^-esent exists at its outfall below the chapel, ca by the effluvium arising from the ,'>ewage waters now min with it, wojald no Iqngpr be felt. As the greater part of waste water would be collcctpd and stored in a reservoir, >v it will be seen that I propose forming above the top of SIji street, and as only the surplus would be allowed to fall the Sheep-street drain, it may probably be made by i slight in^p^-ovements to answer this purpose very well. For the ef|icje|it sewerage of the town, and the distribu of the liquid refuse for jigricultural purposes, I propq divide the sewerage into three independent systems, first and most considerable of these systems should com] the sewerage of Sheep-street, Broad-street, High-street, L well-street. Tower-hill, and Pump-street. A 6-inch gV stoneware pipe should be laid down, as a main sewer, thr Sheep-strqet and High-street, as far as Pump-street, wh. would meet a second pipe of the same dimensions, which n be laid dqwn from the Market-place, through Broad-streett part of High-street, to join the first one at Pump street, the junction the united sewers should be increased to 9 i diameter, and be led down Pump street, when it would sui sively receive the sewerage from 6-inch pipes to be laid ( Nunwell-street and Tower-hill ; from the end of Pump-' the main-sewer pipe should be led in a direction between lane and Tower-hill, so as to skirt the high land forniins latter, and should finally come out at the top of the Linto Winslow meadows, which border Frooiriy Brook to the s west of the town, where its contents may be distributer manure. An overflow pipe should be laid clown, to conduc sewage, when necessary, by the nearest course into the bi this overflow pipe may be used upon ordinary occasions a of the distributing pipes. As the outfall of this sewer r be at a considerable elevation above the leA^el of these meac the sewage water may be distributed with great facilit means of the hose and jet. These sewers must be laid at a suflficient depth effect to drain all the cellars in High-street and Broad-street. The second system of sewerage would consist chiefly o main-sewer pipe, laid down Milvern lane, Cruxwell-st Back street, and Church-street, G inches diameter at its u end, and 9 inches at its lower end. From Church-street sewer should be led through the fields at the back of the cln to those meadows beyond Mill-lane, which lie between it](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20422544_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
