[Report 1965] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnack R.D.C.

  • Barnack (Cambridgeshire). Rural District Council.
Date:
1965
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Credit: [Report 1965] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnack R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -4— e) Southorno This is the only parish ’./hero a proper sewerage scheme is not envisaged as it is a small straggling hamlet where the installation of main drainage world be sompavatively costly. It is not favoured by the County Planning Authority for any development except selective infilling. Towards the ond of the year the Council asked their Consulting Engineers to give a report on the possibilities of a sewerage scheme for this a.rc->a. f) Samples, 9 samples of sewage effluents were taken as follows with results as shown:™ Total, , Enti rely Satisfactory Partially Uns a ti sfactorv Unsatis factory. Wittering 4 3 - 1 Wans ford 5 3 2 - The unsatisfactory sampleswere partly certain times of the year, and partly settling and humus tanks emptied by a due to a shortage of to the difficulty in local contractor. labour at having the g) Genera],. The Engineering Surveyor of the Council's Insurance Company again carried out his six monthly inspections of all sewage pumping equipment within the area and his reports again stated that skilled and careful attention was being given to this equipment. Further connections were made to the sewerage systems, and at the end of the year there were only 70 night soil buckets in the district which required collection, the greatest number being in the 3 villages which are at the moment without a proper sewerage scheme. During the year your Technical Assistant and I were able to see various treatment plants of proprieteiy design in another rural area, and we both attended maintenance courses of Sewage Treatment works sponsored by the Association of the Rural District Councils Surveyors. REFUSE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL. Once again the weekly scheme of refuse collection instigated in I960 worked extremely well despite minor breakdowns of the vehicle and periodical shortages of labour. Hardly any complaints were received from ratepayers, who again took the regularity of this service for granted. During the year the sale of paper salvage amounted to £13.0.0., most of which (£10.12.0) was repaid as bonus to the workmen. Many repairs, some of a substantial nature had to be carried out to the vehicle during the year, and in addition, it was repainted at a cost of £65.0.0. Due to the ever increasing cost of repairs, and after demonstrations had been arranged, the Council agreed to order a new vehicle for delivery in the following year. COUNCIL DEPOT. Negotiations took place in the latter part of the year for the acquisition of land adjoining the Depot at Wittering for a new Depot Building.