[Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Cannock U.D.C.

  • Cannock (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1899
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Credit: [Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Cannock U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sewnge Farm and Sewage Bxteii Niuii Scheme. rriinary Viipcinaiiona. I liave ])!iid regular visits to the Se^'age Farm during the past yeai’, taking on each occasion samples of the effluents. * ffllie latter, I am pleased to state, have on the whole maintained the standard of improvement re]>orted upon in the preceding year. To remedy the e.\isting evils of defective drainage in various parts of the district, the .sewage extension .scheme submitted to you by Mi‘. Whilter lllackshaw, Surveyoi-, and approved, has also received the approval of ^Mr H. Law, M. In^t. C.F., of Westminstei', and is now awaiting the sanction of the Local Government lioard. 'J’he scheme has been designed in accordance with the general requii ements of the Local Government Board, and provides for the drainage of 66 streets in various parts of the disti’ict, viz., Bi-idgtown, Burner Hill, Old Fallow, Broomhill, Ghadsmoor, Green Heath, Rawnsley, Kugeley Road, Church Hill, and portions in and ai’ound Cannock and Hednesford. The whole of the sewage will gravitate to the Sewage Farm but as the sewage from the Bridgtown and Wolver- hampton Road outfalls cannot How on to the upper portion of the Farm bj' gravitation, the .same will be raised by means of two Shone's Ejectors. All the sewage will pass through two settling tanks at the u])per part of the farm, adjoining Longford. Lane, the effluent fiom these tanks being treated on the farm lands by intermittent downward tilti-ation. f'he tanks will be each 100 feet long, 50 feet wide, and 6 feet deej), and are so designed that they can be convei-ted into bacteria beds if required in the future. The po))ulation contributing sewage is estimated at 22,000, and the daily flow of sewage at 25 gallons jier head, or a total of 550,000 gallons. The wet weather flow is estimated at 1,650,0(M) gallons, a provision being made at the farm for an additional 1 ,(>•'>0,000 gallons of storm water by enclosing three aci’es of the low-lvinf*- hind. ^ 1 he scheme includes about 21 miles of sewei’s, surface Mater drains, and branch drains, and the amount of loan re.pnred for carrying out the work is £25,000. Mr ,1. 1. S))ooner, the Vaccination Officer, has kindly a return, in which the births are stated as . /• , the number of children successfully vaccinated 610, < ta< unvaccinated 91, ])o.stponed vaccinations 5, and un- successfully vaccinated 6,