Extract from monthly reports of the County Medical Officer of Health, presented to the Sanitary Committee, Nov. 6., 1897. Sewage disposal at Tipton.

  • Staffordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Extract from monthly reports of the County Medical Officer of Health, presented to the Sanitary Committee, Nov. 6., 1897. Sewage disposal at Tipton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r !a) (, I 11' 1 / ^ X nA\ y/ LlBuQ^^y^ ‘ ;( ^ ^ ^S3. IQ'^9 STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY ICIL. EXTRACT FROM MONTHLY REPORT OF THE COUNTY MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH, Presented to the Sanitary Committee, Nov. 6, 1897. Sewage Disposal at Tipton. Experimental Filters. As the Committee are aware, for some time past an experimental sewage disposal plant has been in operation at Tipton, with the object of ascertaining whether it would be possible (by additions and improvements at the existing outfall works) to satisfactorily deal with that portion of the sewage of the district which now drains to the works, and which, at present, gives rise to serious pollution, as well as with the sewage of about 6,500 people in the immediate neighbourhood. The experimental plant has now been at work sufficiently long to warrant reliable conclusions being arrived at, and, in this report, these conclusions, together with the facts upon which they are based, are set forth. In order that the Committee, and others who may have to consider this report, may understand the circumstances which led to the experimental work being undertaken, it is desirable, in the first instance, to give a short summary of the existing means of sewage disposal within the Tipton Urban District. The District, for an urban one, is widely scattered, having an area of 2,697 acres, and a population, according to the last census, of 29,314. The population is grouped together at centres, chiefly round the boundary, the central part being non-residential and nearly exclusively devoted to mining operations.