Removal of excreta and household refuse. Report of the medical officer of health to the health committee.

  • Nottingham (England)
Date:
1887
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Credit: Removal of excreta and household refuse. Report of the medical officer of health to the health committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    The advantages claimed for this form of closet are econcjray both in fii'st cost and in working, freedom from nuisance, and impossibility of serious derangement even if carelessly used. After a careful inspection of several which have been in use for some time, I am of opinion that they have proved very satis- factory. Fifteen hundred have been constructed during the last two years, many of them in poor districts, and no new pail closets are now allowed. Where the fall to the sewer is slight, this system cannot be applied in its entirety, although it would usually be possible to employ axitomatic flush tanks fed by water from the main, leaving the waste water to be dealt with in the usual way. In Birmingham, Huddersfield, Liverpool, Manchester and Salford the use of water closets is encouraged by making no charge for water supplied for that pijrpose. Water Closets. Tail Closets. Privies. Special Forms Birmingham ... 11,000 40,000 13,000 1,500 flush closets. Bristol 40,000 0 0 Derby 4,000 4,400 10,000 150 trough Halifax 3,800 8,970 700 closets. Huddersfield ... 2,000 11,000 1,500 Hull 4,000 0 40,000 Leicester 18,000 6,500 200 Liverpool 88,000 0 4,400 3250 trough closets. Manchester ... ll.COO 66,000 4,000 Newcastle 18,055 2,362 6,360 Nottingham ... 7,500 35,590 ? 100 trough Oldham 620 19,975 4 Preston ? 0 20,000 closets. liochdale 497 11,800 190 Ralford 5,821 7,965 29,755 St. Helens 500 2,000 3,366 South Shields 500 0 2,500 7000 ash closets. Sunderland ... ? 2,500 17,000* ^Including new ash closets. Walsall 1,000 0 11,000 613 5,458 900 Wolverhampton ? ? ?