[Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health and Sanitary / Public Health Inspector, Peterborough City.

  • Peterborough (England). City Council. nr 94004832.
Date:
1954
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Credit: [Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health and Sanitary / Public Health Inspector, Peterborough City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -20- Bacillus Coli (Presumptive) Absent in lOOmils lOOmils lOOmils. At the time of sampling these three waters wore all of suitable bacterial and chemical quality for human consumption,domestic use and dairy purposes. The following table shows methods of water distribution in the City:- Number of dwellings in City (a) Direct supply by tap in with:- the house [Estimated pop [served. 16,813| 52,713 (*>) Supply by standpipe : 497j 1,490 (c) Private supplies by wells, springs etc. 12! j 37 Totals 1 17,322i 54,240 Drainagc & Sewerage The construction of the new sewage disposal works,begun in 1950, was virtually completed during the year and six houses to accommodate sewage works staff wore also built, five of these being occupied and the remaining house used as a laboratory by the sewage disposal works chemist who was appointed to the post in the month of June, the first appoint¬ ment of this type to the Corporation’s Staff. The Sub-structure of the Southern Area Sewage Pumping Station, situated ori the River Embankment,was ninety per-cent complete by the end of the year. The following sewers were laid during the twelve month: period under review:- 21 inch Rising Main:- Pulbridge Road(South of Gunthorpe Bridge) 6 inch Rising Main & 9 inch Sewer Pulbridge Road (North of Gunthorpe Bridge) Miscellaneous lengths of large diameter Sewers:- Through Walton Estate and Bishopb Road area. Gloset Accommodation. The number of properties still not on water carriage sewrage system is shown by the fact that in Longthorpe 43 buckets and 1 tank and,in Newark,26 buckets are regularly emptied by the City Engineer’s Department. Public Cleansing & Scavenging; There are approximately 18,500 moveable ashbins in use in the City. Ti7oPaxit Refuse vehicles were purchased during the year to.replace older vehicles, one old vehicle being sold, and the other retained as a spare. The new vehicles are of larger capacity than those they replace and it is hoped that this will, to some extent at any- rate,offset the very great man-power difficulties with which