Scarborough as a health resort : its physical geography, geology, climate & vital statistics, with a health guide map, &c / [by A. Haviland].

  • Haviland, Alfred, -1903
Date:
1883
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Credit: Scarborough as a health resort : its physical geography, geology, climate & vital statistics, with a health guide map, &c / [by A. Haviland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    disposed of in this ]^orough. The Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1882, embodies an exceedingly good one from the Sanitary Inspector, Mr. Finlay, who has not only earned for himself the Certificate of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, but the approbation of all who are associated with him in the Sanitary Avork of Scarborough, by his intelligence, his thorough Icnowledge of his duties, and the conciliatory, but firm manner in which he performs them. Mr. Finlay reports as follows as to the disposal of some of the filth : Removal of House Re/u.-ie.—The number of Ash-pits and Ash-closets now in the Borough is estimated at 8,000, from which, during the year (1882) 12,064 loads of refuse were removed by the Authority, and disposed of hi/ sending it to the farmers in the neighbourhood. As the Committee will be aware, refuse is removed once, a toeek, necessitating no less than ^16,000 visits being made during- the year, in addition to Avhich, there are also several places which must be attended to every day, such as fish shops, large hotels, &c. Street Cleansing and Watering.—Tha work of cleansing the town during the year (1882) has been efficiently per- formed, no less than 9,360 loads of street sweepings were removed, and 12,510 loads—equal to about tivo and a half million gallons -of water used during the summer months for stred watering. To the authorities of many so called health resorts T would say go and do likewise. The Old Toion.~As I have said before, an old town is always a source of anxiety, but as the recognition of black spots has always been a salient feature in Dr. J. W. Taylor's sanitary policy, the result is that, with the co-operation of the Town Surveyor, Mr. Joseph Fetch, he has succeeded m remedying the worst of its evils, and in reducing to a minimum the dangers inherent to narrow streets, alleys, and courts, by asphalting, draining, and flushing them ; and I can speak from personal experience that during the three months I resided in the town I seldom passed a day without aoino. through some of the oldest streets and alleys, and I can truly say I was never once annoyed by ofi-ensive effluvia of any kind. The asphalting and paving the narrowest streets, as well as the larger and more important thoroughfares, material- ly conduce to their dryness, and to the dryness of the G