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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    - even among tliis class it is desirable that trial should be made, as at Leicester and Birmingham, of water-carriage in suitable cases. 3. In liouses not of the poorest class watei--carriage is preferable, supplemented by at least weekly collection of liouse- hold refuse. I would suggest therefore :— 1. That for houses below a certain rough standard of rental or rateable value the pail system should be continued for the present, and extended so far as to meet the requirements of such houses, whether arising from abolition of privies and ashpits, or from originally deficient closet accomodation. No doubt it would occasionally be necessary to deviate from this standard, in either direction, according to the special cir- cumstances of each case. An annual rateable value of £10 might be a suitable limit for this purpose. To attempt to enforce water-carriage at present in houses below that value would lead to many failures and would needlessly endanger the credit of the system. It would be necessary to make exception where the only access to the closet is through the house. 2. That some system of water-carriage should be required in all new houses-having access to a sewer. 3. That (in the absence of special reasons for exception) new pail closets should not be constructed in houses above the adopted limit of value, nor in factories, workshops, or schools. Those now in use should be gradually replaced by some approved form of water-carriage. 4. In certain cases where the amount of waste-water available is insufficient for flushing the closets upon the Birming- ham plan, water might be supplied for that purpose at a reduced cost, or gratuitously, as at Manchester, Salford, Liverpool and Birmingham. ^L... ^^a^^^^^ B: ARTHUR WHITELEGGE, Medical Officer of Health. September IGth, 1887.