[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Castleford U.D.C.

  • Castleford (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Castleford U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    35/46 (page 11)
    , Your Medical Officer requested that samples be taken regularly of all water supplies. It was found that se.veral dvi/elling-h'-uses derived their supplies from wells, and particular attention was paid to these. The following is a summary of the sanples taken and the results deriveci therefrom. Public Supply, Bacteriological Examination, ^ No, of samples taken - 'No, satisfactory. 28 No. doubtful. - 1 No, unsatisfactory. Nil Chemical Analysis. No, of samples taken.i 4 'No, satisfactory. - 4 No, unsatisfactory. - Nil V/ells and Spring Supplies, Bacteriological Examination, No. of samples taken - 13 No. satisfactory. - 7 No. unsatisfactory. - 6 Chemical Analysis. No, of samples taken. - 3 No, satisfactory. - 1 No, doubtful. - 2 As a result of the above unsatisfactory samples, three wells v/ere closed, one at Water Fryston,.one at Akc-ton Road and one at Carr Wood, A further v/ell at Aketon Road v/i].l be closed as the dv/elling it serves is under a Demolition Order, PUBLIC SWIIiMING BATHS. In his report your Medical Officer reports in full on the condition of your Public Swimming Baths and it is therefore sufficient for me to record that during the year the Department was responsible for taking 42 samples from the pool, all of which proved satisfactory, there being always a sufficiency of free chlorine and an absence of B,coli, AIR POLLUTION. I regret that in this connection one can report very little, if any progress, V/ith the fuel supply of the country still so precarious it is impossible to achieve any reduction in the general smoke emissions. Observation is made of conditio,ns generally and v/here nuisance occurs in abnormiUl form, endeavour is made to secure remedy. During the year one factory chimney has achieved considerable notoriety from its constant emissions of smoke at low altitude. This would'appear to be due to inefficient plant and lo'w grade fuel, and the owners have been approached with a view to re-i^stalling an underfeed stoker, whilst the assistance of the Ministry,of Fuel and Power has been sought in an endeavour to obtain'suitable fuel. It is-hoped that when the next Report is v/ritten the negotiations will have produced the desired conditions, Notv/ithstanding the black (smoke) outlook, vie continue to make observations of sootfall at four points and of Sulphur Trioxide at two. The table of these results is as follov/sj-