[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Peterborough R.D.C.

  • Peterborough (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Peterborough R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Legislation in Force. Adoptive Acts. Part 3 of the Public Health (Amendment) Act, 1890, relating to sewers adopted for purpose of Byelaws. Sections 169 and 170 of the Public Health Act 1875, relating to slaughter houses. Part IV. of the Public Health (Amendment) Act 1925, relating to verminous persons and premises. Sec. 7 (6) The Infectious Disease (Notification) Act 1889. Sanitary Circumstances of the Area. Water. Some of the parishes in the area are wholly or in part supplied with water bought from the Peterborough Corporation, and obtained from their bores at Braceborough and Etton : the villages supplied with water from this source purchased in bulk are:—Walton, Werrington, Paston, Gunthorpe, and parts of Peterborough Without, Eye and Longthorpe. The remaining Villages obtain water as follows :— Castor and Ailsworth—wells. Upton, Sutton—wells. Helpston—wells and two public bores. Marholm—wells and a public supply is under consideration, some of the inhabitants get water from a private spring pumped to a standpipe. Peakirk and Glinton—public bore. Newborough, Deeping Gate, Etton and Maxey—shallow wells. Borough Fen and part of Newborough—stored rain water and from drains. The wells are shallow, the bores tapping the same stratum as that worked at Braceborough and Etton. The rivers from which water is taken, either directly or from drains linked to them are the Nene and the Welland : both of which, being slow running rivers with no great fall and subject to over¬ flowing at times, bordered for considerable distances by fields