Volume 2

First-[second] report of the Royal Sanitary Commission.

  • Great Britain. Royal Sanitary Commission
Date:
1869-1874
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    Constitution of Local Board. Districts. Officers. Medical Advice. Inspection. Hospital Accommoda- tion. Treatment, &c., of Disease. Sewerage, Sec. W^ater Supply, &c. Qus. 1, 8-12. a-7, 49-5 O. 3.3-3.5,19. 16-18, 20-28. 29-34. 35-38, 57. ■as. Roxby- cum-Slistoy. (Lincolnshire). L. G. Act adopted under § 12, Jan. 1863. The district is conter- minous with the parish of Koxuy - CUM - RiSBY (GlanfordBrigg Union). A. - - 4,730 0 0 R. V. - £6,271 15 0 P. - 350. H. - 68. D. R. 20. There is no adjoining dis- trict which should be added. {See answer, No. 60.) No advice from a medical source. There is no re- gular system of inspection. (No answer as to officers em- ployed.) No contribution to hospi- tals. No disinfecting apparatus. Coroner is a solicitor. No sanitary reports ob- tained by guardians. No registration of disease. No means of ascertaining presence of epidemic. No record of death or disease in public insti- tutions is published. No outbreak of disease since 1853. The drainage is good. (No answer to questions 30- 34.) Water supply is by wells to each cottage and farm. There are no tenements with- ; out water. 46. Rugby. (Warwickshire). P. H. Act applied, by Order in Council, Sept. 1849. The district is contermi- nous with the parish of Rugby. A. - - 1,017 0 0 R. V. - £40,000 0 0 P. - 8,300. H. - 1,463 ; since 1861 100 have been built chiefly for the artizan class. D. R. (no infonnation). There is no orf/oinuif/dis- trict under a local board which should be in- cluded. The ecclesiastic district of New Bilton (H. about 127, P. 600), the houses in which are within 150 or 200 yards of houses in Rugby town, and which is supplied w-ith gas from Rugby, should be included. Some of the wells are contaminated by sewage from privies, and the drainage is de- fective. Inspector of Nui- sances (is also Survey 07-^, 126?. per annum. Officer of Health an M.D., paidby fees. No factory in- spector or cer- tifying surgeon. There is no regu- lar system of inspection. Powers of in- specting food seem efficient, but the Acts shovild be con- solidated. Ocu- lar inspection by the justice should be dis- pensed with, and evidence on oath substituted. Inspection can- not always be had at the time, and the food is frequently in a different state than when seized. No contribuBon to hos- pitals; it is doubtful whether temporary applies to the building orto the reception of the sick. A private nursing house has lately been established by subscrip- tion. No disinfecting appara- tus. Infected patients are conveyed in a spe- cial carriage. Coroner is an attorney. Epidemic disease ascer- tained by report of Officer of Health. Means sufficient. No infonnation has been as yet given. No record of death or disease in any public institution is published. No outbreak of disease since 1853. No unhealthy district. Public sewerage is sufficient. Subsoil is not waterlogged. Sewers are ventilated partly by ventilating shafts trapped with charcoal chambers; partly by the rainspouts to the tops of houses. Sewers and house drains (except as aforesaid) are trapped. In 1868 the board commenced irrigation to prevent the fur- ther pollution of the river Avon. Amount obtained from the tanks was hardly saleable. Houses generally have water- closets, and drain into the public sewers. Single houses outside the town do not com- municate with the sewers. Water supply \>axt\y from col- lecting drains and partly from the river Avon (un- polluted). Water is sup- plied to nearly all the houses within the town. Rainfall is not utilized publicly, nor privately, to any consider- able extent. No tenements without water w ithin a reasonable reach of the mains. § 76 P. H. Act and § 51 L. G. Act as amended by the Rugby Waterworks Act, 1863, which extends the rate to Is. 6d. in the IZ., are acted upon. An artesian well was under- taken, but the water pro- cured proved a strong salt brine ; cost was 3,000?. Entire expenditure on water supply, 18,700?.; they are within the area, and under the jurisdiction of the Local Authority. No district be- yond the boundaries is sup- plied, but the Board have power by their Act to supply New Bilton. (See Column 2.) 4:7. Sale. (Cheshire]'. Acts adopted by a resolution of the owners and ratepayers un- der § 12, Nov. 1866. The district is contermi- nous with the township of Sale. A. - - 1,981 1 20 R. V. - £30,310 3 11 P. (in 1861, 3,031) 5,000. H. (in 1861, 607) 921. D. R. - 1865 - 18 1866 - 20-9 1867 - 16-6 1868 (no data). There is no adjoininc/ dis- trict which should be included. Inspector of Nui- sances, 201. per annum. Assis- tant Inspector, 81. One of the Board is a medical man; and when necessary the opinion of two medical men is obtained. No regular system of inspection; the Inspector of Nuisances makes periodica inspection of common lodg- ing houses and slaughter-houses Powers of inspect- ing food effi- cient. No contribution to hos- pitals. No disinfecting appa- ratus. Coroner not a medical man. No registration of disease. Epidemic disease ascer- tained through medical men ready to give in- formation ; that infor- mation would be acted upon. Means sufficient. No record of death or disease in public insti- tution is published. No special outbreak of disease since 1853. No unhealthy district. Public sewerage is not at pre- sent sufficient, but there is a scheme of drainage under consideration which will thoroughly drain the town- ship. House drainage at pre- sent carried into existing watercourses. Drains of houses erected since the Act are trapped. Houses are either supplied with waterchsets capable of being flushed with water, or with privies and ashpits, or both. All houses built since the adoption of the Act, and having waterclosets, are required to have cesspools. Cesspools and ashpits not deodorised. Water supply is from the Manchester Waterworks. The water is collected in the Derbyshire liills. Water laid on to each house, and there is a constant supply. Rainfall not utilized. There are no tenements without water. The 76th sec. P. H. Act has been acted on and foimd sufficient.