Our sanitary laws : how they are administered : a contribution to the discussion of the question of public health / by Robert Kirkwood, M.D., Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow.
- Kirkwood, Robert, M.D.
- Date:
- 1882
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Our sanitary laws : how they are administered : a contribution to the discussion of the question of public health / by Robert Kirkwood, M.D., Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![2 D. This addition, it will bo noticed, communicates by means of a lighted passage with the old milk room, thus securing isolation and suitable ventilation. “ 2. The manure heap has, as was proposed, been removed as shown on plan 2 E, and secured by a retaining wall. This is an undoubted improvement, and is the only sugges- tion which has been attended to. “3. The drainage of the byre [F No. 1] which at present runs southward to the door and finally escapes under the milkroom window as shown in the plan, should be reversed and should be made to pass outwards into a drain at G No. 2. By this simple alteration an undoubted nuisance would be remedied. “ 4. The whole courtyard should be repaired and the levels so arranged that the watershed should not be towards the farm but outwards, so as to allow of the rainfall, &c., &c., escaping by the drain H figured in the plan. This improve- ment would not only secure that the farm be kept dry, but also that the drain in question would be periodically flushed. “ All these suggestions were made to the proprietor and his factor, and were approved of by them as moderate and reasonable. Sufficient time has now elapsed to enable them to carry them out, and I would suggest that they be called upon by the Local Authority to do so with as little delay as possible. “ The water supply of the farm is derived from a well situated in a field which rises behind the house. 1 observed that the field in question is ploughed and about to be heavily manured. There can be no doubt that these opera- tions must act injuriously on the character of the water supply. “ Luckily the water as employed for cleaning the milk vessels and utensils is used at or near the boiling tempera- ture, which will tend to precipitate a portion of the organic matter and thus obviate in great part the risk attending on the use of such water. a](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24933521_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
