General report on the sanitary condition of the town of Kelso / drawn up at the request of the Board of Commissioners of Police, by Charles Wilson, M.D.

  • Wilson, Charles, 1804-1883
Date:
1848
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Credit: General report on the sanitary condition of the town of Kelso / drawn up at the request of the Board of Commissioners of Police, by Charles Wilson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    No. 16. For the reasons just stated, the large dunghill, with privy- attached, leaning against, and immediately inider the window of, an adjoining house, must be considered an unwholesome nuisance. No. 17. A narrow court, with pigsty and dunghill, in a locality too contracted to be occupied for such purposes. No. 18. A pigsty, and dunghill, placed against the wall of a house, through which the moisture penetrates. No. 19. A large dunghill, covering a space of 8 square yards, in a small close ; and a byre, without proper ventilation or drainage. The slime from the dunghill penetrates through the wall of an adjoining house, and is complained of by the tenant as a grievous nuisance. No. 20. Two large dunghills, contiguous, with privy, covering a space of 15 square yards, and with filthy ooze running through passage of house ; occasionally very offensive. No. 21. Close, with large dunghill, upwards of 10 square yards, pigsty, and abominable and ruinous privy; the drainage very defective, with stagnant filth diffused over the road, notwithstand- ing the dryness of the weather. No. 22. The damp from a dunghill and pigsty passes into the interior of adjoining house. No. 23. A dunghill, several feet deep, receiving the rain by a spout from the back of the house, causes a moisture which oozes through the wall, and can be traced for several feet along the floor of adjoining apartment. On the same property, a stable, ]3igsty, and privy, leaning against the wall of adjacent dwelling-house. No. 24. A large and deep dung-pit, containing a great accumula- tion of offensive matters; with exhalations so noisome that the occupants of • the house nearest adjoining are rarely enabled to have their windows opened. Other similar collections are in the close vicinity. No. 25. Dunghill and stable, in narrow, unventilated court. The dunghill is placed against the wall of a dwelling-house, through which the damp has penetrated. The only drainage appears to be by an offeusive gutter running through the passage of house. This locality, from its contracted limits, is wholly unsuited to the purposes for which it is occupied^* No. 26. Dunghills, containing, apparently, nearly 30 cubic yards of manure, with drainage through oflensive open runnel:—cer- tainly a hazardous accumulation to exist in a narrow court, in the close vicinity of several dwelling-houses. No. 27. A Avide accumulation of manure, covering a space of up- wards of 150 square yards ; with fetid and stagnant Avater. No. 28.—A large dunghill, with open drain, containing impure, stagnant water. No. 29. A court, with large dunghill; and i pigsties, each with 13