Volume 2

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

  • Great Britain. Royal Sanitary Commission
Date:
1869-1874
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Credit: First-[second] report of the Royal Sanitary Commission. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Constitution of Local Authority. Districts. Qus. 1, 8-12. Officers. Medical Advice. Inspection. 13-lS, 19. Hospital Accommoda- tion. Treatment, &c. of Disease. 16-18, 20-28. StSWirage, &c. 29-3'&. Water Supply, &c. 35-38, 57. 67. Blackpool. (Lancashire). Boai-d constituted undertheBlacli- pool Imiirove- ment Acts(1853: 16 Vict. c. xxix., and 1865, 28 & 29 Vict, c. ccxiv.) P. H. ActandL.G, Act have been applied to the district. The district is contermi- nous with the township of Layion with Wau- BltlCK. A. - 2,229 3 17 R. V. -.£48,576 15 0 P. \ Both doubled (3,600 y since last -< H.J census ( 800 D. R. (no means of ascer- taining). There is no adjoining dis- trict which should be included. Three Inspectors of Nuisances, at 25s.,20s.,and20s. per week. No health officer. Inspector un- der the Factory Acts, &c. No certifying sur- geon. No advice from a medical source. No regular sys- tem ot'inspectio?i. Powers of in- specting food efficient. No contribution to Iios- pitals. There is no hospital in the district. No disinfecting appa- ratus. No arrangement for con- veyance of infected patients. Coroner not a medical man. No sanitary reports ob- tained by the guardians. No registration of disease. Epidemic disease is ascer- tained through the in- spectors. Means in- sufficient. No record of death or disease is published. There were outbreaks of sinall-pnx in 1866 and 1868, not very bad. There was great difficulty in keeping the infected people and their atten- dants from visiting other and non-infected houses. No unhealthy district. Public sewerage is sufficient. Sub-soil is not waterlogged. Sewers are ventilated by rain pipes. Sewers and house drains are trapped. Sewac/e is discharged into the sea below low-water mark, being conveyed in pipes tliree feet in diameter. No legal or other difficulties have been experienced. One half the houses have waterclosets, the others have privies, which are not deo- dorised. All are supplied with ashpits. Houses drain into the public sewers. Water supply is from the Fylde VVater«'orks Com- pany ; the water is unpol- luted. There is a constant supply to five-sixths of the houses. There are no tene- ments without water. No abandoned works. No imperfectly constructed works. 68. Bolton-le- nXoors. (Lancashire.) The Corporation of Bolton are the Local Board. P. H. Act, 1848, except §S 4-34, 50, 66,'75, 9.3, 105, 107, 121, 138, 141, 142, 152, was applied originally by the Borough of Bolton Act, 1850 ; but now apply by virtue of the Bolton Iniproveiuent Act, 1854. (Copies of the latter Act, and of Local Acts of 1864 and 1865; sent.) The district (the borough of Bolton) consists of the township of Cheat Bolton and /jarfs of two other townships (Little Bolton * and Haulgh). A. - - - 1,840. R.V. - - £239,801 P. (estimated) 80,000 H. (1861} - 13,325 (now) - 15,854 including 383 cellar duellings. (1807 - -30-49 D.R.-.'l868 - -25-52 (l869 - -26-75 The local board districts of Ilalliwdl and Shar- pies, or portions of them, should be incor- porated with the bo- rough,as by the increase of buildings in the town and neighbourhood a great part of these dis- tricts named appear to belong to the town, and the inhabitants and occupiers of works use the streets and trade of the town as much as the residents. Portions of the townships of RuMwoKTH and Great Lever, into which mill works and population from the borough have extended, should also be annexed. In effect they are parts of the town, except as regards local government and taxation. I* See No. 5.] Medical officer of health, who re- ports upon dwellings unfit for human habi- tation, under Artizans and LabourersDwel- lings Acts, 1868, and is paid for services actually rendered. In- spector of nui- sances, who inspects gene- rally, (except slaughterhouses and provisions,) and sees to the due observance of byelaws re- lating to lodg- ing houses ; salary, 120/. per arm. An assist- ant-inspector of nuisances, sa- lary, 521. per ann. An itt- spector of meat, provisions, and slaughter-houses, 80/. per ann. An assistant in- spector to aid No. 4, when re- quired, at 10/. per ann. There is an in- spector under the Factory Acts, and also certifying sur- geons within the borough. The Inspector of Nuisances makes regular inspections of all parts of the borough. The powers for in- specting food are not so effi- cient as desir- able. No contribution to hos- pitals. There is an in- firmary ; but infectious diseases are not admit- ted. No disinfecting apparatus, nor plan for disinfecting sewers. Cases of infectious dis- ease arc removed in ordinary cabs. Coroner is an attorney. Guardians do not obtain any sanitary reports of their districts. No registration of disease. Epidemic disease is re- ported by the district snrgeon to the guar- dians. This plan seems sufficient; and action is immediately taken by the officers of the union, or the sanitary olficers of the corporation. A record of death and dis- ease is kept at the in-- firmary. There has been no out- break of disease since 1853. No unhealthy district, except that in some of the confined courts and alleys fever prevails occasionally. Public sewerage and drainage are generally sufficient, but com- plaints are made of the sew- age draining into the river within the borough, and on this account intercepting works are being constructed. The subsoil is not water- logged ; but if it were, the corporation has no restrictive power. Sewers are ventilated partly by grates and partly by rain- water pipes. Seuers and house drains generally are carefully trapped. Sewage runs into a stream which flows through the borough ; other methods of disposing of it are being considered. No attempt to carry sewers beyond the district has been made, but the intercepting sewers are being carried through private grounds without any difficulty. About 300 houses have loater- closets. The remainder gene- rally liave privies, and open ashpits, which are not deo- dorized, otherwise than by house ashes. Houses generally drain into the sewers. Water supply is from reser- voirs, the sources being the moorlands four or five miles from the town. The rain fall upon the moorlands is utilized directly by the re- servoirs, and the supply generally is sufficient and good. All houses within the borough are supplied with water. § 76 P. H. Act, and § 51 L. G Act, are used to compel the taking of water. In using these powers no difficulty has arisen. No abandoned works. No imperfectly constructed works. The entire expenditure forper- manent works of water sup- ply has been 373,971/. Os. 8d. Ten other townships are sup- plied. The waterworks are situate outside the district.