[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Halifax R.D.C.
- Halifax (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Halifax R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The iiuitter was duly reported to your Council, and your Clerk advised that as it was a penal case and, there- fore, had to be proved up to the hilt, proceedings should not be taken, so many obvious courses being open to an unscrupulous defendant. Finally your Council gave the person on whose premises the carcase was found the alternative of being summoned or })aying all the expenses in connection with the case. He at once paid the expenses. Sewerage and Sewage Disposal.—Your Authority has carried out a large amount of work, com- paratively speaking, in this direction during the past year, as the present Summary will indicate ;— Clifton—200 yards of 12 in. Sewer laid. Hartshead—187 yards of 12 in. Sewer laid. Do. 100 yards ol 9 in. Sewer laid and Sew- ai>e Tanks constructed. O Most of the above tlrainage was cai’i'ied out alter the visit of a Deputatii)!! of the Halifax Dural Sanitary Authority in the Summer, after a Repoi't had been pre- sented Ijy myself and the Sanitary lns[)ector on the drainage of the district. I could find no satisfacteny cause for sevei’al cases of tliphtheria and tyj)hoid fever whiclM)ccurred in Hartshead, and on going thoroughly into the drainage of the whole of that part ol the village, it hecame a])j)arent that a radical alteration was needed. Xo time was lost, I am haj)py to say, after a ])o]mtation had visited this and other plactts, in carrying out a proper system of drainage.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29406791_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
