Report to the local government board on certain means of preventing excrement nuisances in towns and villages / by J. Netten Radcliffe.

  • Radcliffe, J. Netten.
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[1875]
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    REPORT to tbe Local Government Board by Mr. J. Netten Radcliffe on certain Means of pre- venting Excrement Nuisances in Towns and Villages. CONTENTS. I’age Preliminary A. SUM.MARY Rkport : — I. General Observations - ~ - - - - 3 II. Systems of Excrement-Disposal - - - - - 5 General Considerations - - - - - 5 Particular modes of Excrement-disposal and results of Obser- vation thereon - - - - - - 7 1. The Midden System - - - - 8 2. The Pail System - - - ~ - 12 3. The Water System - - - - - 14 4. The Earth Sytem - - - - - 15 5. The Charcoal System - - - - 16 III. Li(]uid house-refuse—Slops - - - - - -16 IV. Special adaptations to Rural Districts - - - - 17 V. General Sxmmary of Conclusions - - - - - 18 B. Detailed Report ;— I. On Various Towns and Villages as to Midden, Dry-Ash, and Pail Closets, and certain kinds of Watcrclosels - - - - 19 II. On the Dry-Earth System - - - - - -78 III. On the Charcoal System - - - - - - 90 IV. On Slop-Nuisance - - - - - - - 93 Preliminary. Ill 1869, Dr. Buchanan and I, as inspectors in the Medical Depart- ment of the Privy Council, made an inquiry concerning the systems then in use in various northern towns for dealing with excrement. The considerations which prompted that inquiry were thus stated in the introduction to the report in which we gave the results* :— Privy Council Inquiry 0/1869, “The propagation of certain epidemic diseases, especially cholera, enteric fever, and diarrhoea, among communities, as the result of excremental pollution of air and water, is one of the best established facts of sanitary medicine. It is a fact which has been admitted for over a century, and still various inquiries of this department (themselves affording repeated evidence of its truth and impor- tance) are shovrtng that it remains without practical recognition by a large proportion of the health authorities of the kingdom. It must be allowed * On the Systems in use in various Northern Towns for dealing with Excrement.— Twelfth Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council, 1869.