[Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Newmarket R.D.C.
- Newmarket (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1949
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Newmarket R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The following particulars relate to the various parishes supplied from the public water mains and indicate the number of houses and estimated population supplied by connections to the houses or by standpipes. PARISH Ashley Bottisham Brinkley Burrough Green Burwell Cheveley Chippenham Dullingham IFordham Isleham Kennett Kirtling I Lode So ham Stetchworth Swaffham Bulheck Swaffham Prior Westley Wicken Woodditton Totals SUPPLY DIRECT TO HOUSES No. Estimated of houses Population 38 102 172 566 3U 113 38 117 522 1666 358 886 26 91 95 316 391 1358 265 869 34 109 43 149 85 295 1369 4781 52 195 12] 393 158 474 29 10*2 155 498 207 664 4188 13744 SUPPLIED BY STANDPIPES No. of Estimated Houses Population 115 344 40 133 11 47 30 91 126 378 67 153 84 292 46 184 76 241 153 517 44 165 99 304 33 121 8<» 281 46 158 93 279 4 17 49 147 1196 3852 DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE. No new works of sewerage or sewage disposal were put in hand during the year and no important additions made to existing works. On the 20th and 21st September a Public Local Inquiry was held by the Ministry of Health into the Regional Sewerage Scheme prepared by the Council's Consulting Engineers. The Scheme provided for the sewerage of the parishes of Soham, Burwell, Fordham, Isleham and Wicken and for disposal by pumping to a centrally situated treatment works near Wicken. The National Trust and other influential bodies and persons made objections at the inquiry, the major one being that the discharge of effluent into Wicken Lode would injuriously affect the scientific and natural amenities of Wicken Fen. The Ministry of Health in a letter dated the 16th November, 1949, informed the Council that the Minister could not approve the Scheme as he had reached the conclusion that it would injuriously affect Wicken Fen. In the Minister's view the peculiar features of the area, involving an extensive system of land drainage which in dry periods becomes semi-stagnant, are such that the discharge of smaller and more widely dispersed quantities of effluent had much to commend](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29906544_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
