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. Officers. Medical Advice. Inspection. Hospital Accommoda- tion. Treatment, &c., of Disease. Sewerage, &c. Water Supply, &c. ^ns. 1, 8-3.2. S-7, .3.3-15,19. 16-13, ZO'Za. 29-3^. 35-38,57. j (Gloucestershire). Improvement Commissioners under a Local Act, 1852, are tlie Local Board; tlie Act incor- porated many sectionsoftheP. H. Act. Others have been since adopted under §15 L. G. Act. The dislrict is conter- minous with the parish of Cheltenham. A. (about) 4,200 0 0 R. V. - £197,046 0 0 P. (1861) 39,000 ; now about 42,000. H. (now) 7,000; increase is gradual. D. R. (about) 17. Suburban districts on the same watershed might be advantageously incorpo- rated for sewerage, drain- age, and water svpply, and the appointment and payment of an otii- cer of health. Charl- ton Kings (under a Lo- cal Board), adjoining on the east, and above, cannot dispose of their sewage without coming to and througli us, Leckhampion, on the south, under a recently appointed sewer au- thority (part recently added to the borough), is making proposals to us to take their sewage, and part of PiiESTiiURY,on thenorth, drains into a stream which is the boundary between the parishes. iSee No. 17.] Clerh, 450?. per annum. Sur- veyor, 300Z. Highway Inspec- tors (2), 170?. and 90?. In- spector of Nui- sances, 65?. lledical Inspec- tor of Common Ijodying-houses, 301. Gas In- spector, 80?., &c. It is intended to appoint a health officer. No advice from a medical source (except from in- spector of lodg- ing-houses). No regularsystem of inspection. The county ana- lyst is resident at Cheltenham, and the Inspec- tor of Nuisances exercises . the power of the N. R. Acts and § 63. P. H. Act. No contribution to hos- pitals. None in district for infectious disorders. A bequest of 5,000?. for a fever hospital is now being litigated. No disinfecting appara- tus. Carbolic acid occa- sionally used. No public conveyance for infected patients. Coroner is a solicitor. No registration of disease. No means other than by reports of the inspec- tors of ascertaining ep?- deniics. Those means insufficient. Informa- tion immediately acted on. No record published of death or disease in pub- lic institutions. The cholera has never visited Cheltenham, wliich has been remark- ably free from epidemic disease. Scarlatina has been prevalent lately. The want of a fever hospital, and of means of isolation and disin- fection, and overcrowd- ing among the poor, are the chief difliculties. Sewerage and drainage is very good. Subsoil is not water- logged. No specified depth from the lowest floor is re- quired. Tliere is no systematic ventila- tion of sewers; rain-water pipes, &c. are used. Gullies into sewers and house drains are carefully trapped. Stwaf/cis discharged into tanks, where it has been deodorised with perchloride of iron, the liquid flowing into brooks, and the residue mixed with ashes, and sold at 2s. per yard to the farmers. Proceeds, 300?. per annum. The com- missioners are about to use the liquid for irrigation. No pumping is required. Houses generally have water- closets, and drain into the sewers (otherwise in the poorer parts of the town, where the water supply is very defective). Water supply is partly by ^ \ company and partly froM K;'I wells in the sand-bed. Til Bj | houses on the clay are d^^^; pendent on the companjlHE* \ihose supply is deficient iH^K' quantity, and intermittei^^BJI'i but good. They have, it believed, spent upwards ^Mr'! 100,000?. They have powe^B'' to supply Charlton. LeclMB* hampton, and Prestbury. ^Wt' A great many tenements nedflR'! water. § 76 P. H. Act anil'' § 51 L. G. Act have bee^Kj' found insufficient. Tl^^B' company has power tn charge additional for closetsS ficc, and it is doubtful if tl^l ' words Water Rate (§ ^Hj L. G. Act) include these ex^ tra charges; neither 2d. p^fl week nor the water ratM would be sufficient. It u9 only xmder § 35 WateJB works Clauses Act, IBiflH ■ that the companies can b« compelled to extend theifl mains, and it is doubtful the local authorities cajB work this section. The most effectual remed« would be to place the wate™ supply in the hands of the! 1 authorities altogether ; but failing that, much more extensive powers are re- quired for enforcing a sup- ply of water for sanitary purposes and to the poorer population. No abandoned works. No imperfectly constructed works. i 78. Coventry. (Warwickshire). The P. H. Act was applied by Provisional Or- der in 1849. The borough was incorporated by 30 Geo. in. c. 77. The district, the muni- cipal borovgh of Coven- try, comprises parts of three parishes ; St. Blichael, St. John the Baptist, and the Holy Trinity. A. - - 1,600 0 0 R. V. - £96,552 10 0 P. - 41,000. H. - 10,400. (1867 - 19??- D. R. 1868 - 22i-f (l869 - 21i^ There is no adjoining district under a local Board. The existing district of the Local Board of Coventry is too limited, and requires to be enlarged ta embrace several suburban parts whose drainage flows towards Coventry and occasions nuisances. Clerk, 200?. per annum ; Sur- veyor, 150?. ; Inspector of Nuisances, 76/. No health officer. Factory Inspector acts. No certifying Surgeon. Advice from a medical source when required. Inspection is re- gularly made. Powers for in- specting food are efficient. No contribution to hos- pitals ; one is sup- ported by voluntary contributions, and in- fectious cases are always admitted readily. Sewers flushed and car- bolic acid put down. No separate conveyance for infectious cases, but directors of the poor are in the habit of send- ing their sedan. Coroner not a medical man. No sanitary reports ob- tained by guardians. No registration of disease. Epidemic ascertained by district medical officers appointed by the direc- tors of the poor, who have instructions to re- port to the board of directors any outbreak. Inspector of nuisances reports any case of epi- demic arising in lodg- ing houses. Informa- tion immediately acted on. No special outbreak of disease since 1853. No unhealthy district. Public sewerage very good. Sewers are ventilated by 1,230 down spouts, and ventilators over main sewers. Sewers and house drains are trapped. Effluent water flows into river Sherbourne after passing througli filters. Solid resi- due sold at 2s. per ton. The board has been threatened with proceedings by a pro- prietor along the stream, and has recently purchased 280 acres of land for irrigation, but no works have at present been commenced. Amount realized by disposal for three years, 292?. 5s. 9d. There are 3,813 waterclosets, many of them double. Houses generally drain into the sewers. Water supply is from artesian I wells sunk in the new red 1 sandstone; supply is COTisfanf. i Rainfall not utilized. Very few tenements without ' water supply, and these arc gradually being supplied. No abandoned works. No imperfectly constructed 1 works. The entire expenditure for water supply has been 1 33,000?., the works have ] been constructed for many j years, and are within the borough. M](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21366081_0002_0288.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
