[Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Wallsend Local Board of Health / Borough.

  • Wallsend (England). Local Board of Health.
Date:
1914
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Credit: [Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Wallsend Local Board of Health / Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The sewage from Bigges Main, which consists chiefly of surface and sink-waste water, undergoes, at the Sewage Disposal Works in that neighbourhood, bacterial treatment and intermittent downward filtration, the effluent being discharged into the Wallsend Burn. The rest of the sewage is discharged without treatment into the River Tyne by ten outfalls. CLOSET ACCOMMODATION. The closet accommodation at the end of the year was as follows :— Ashpit Privies ... ... ... ... 183 Cell Privies ... ... ... ... 6,116 Water Closets ... ... ... ... 1,310 Gradual progress is being made in converting closets of the conservancy type into water closets, and during the year 74 such substitutions were effected. The several types of closet and the number of each converted during the last four years are as follows Year. Number of Water Closets substituted for Ash-pit Privies. Number of Water Closets substituted for Cell Privies. Number of Water Closets substituted for Slop Closets. Total Substitutions. 1911 23 23 1912 152 i. 1 169 1913 28 7 22 57 1914 60 14 0 74 Before the year expired, contracts were let for the conversion of the ashpits in the Willington Quay district. In the matter of conversions, the County Medical Officer of Health in his Annual Report for 1913 states :— “ The extension of the water-carriage system of refuse “ removal, concurrent with the abolition of insanitary privy “ ashpits, should be proceeded with. As long as the storage “ of fecal matter in close proximity to houses continues, “ outbreaks of enteric fever, such as the one above “ recorded, must be periodically expected, and are, in fact, “ invited.” All new houses are provided with water closets and galvanised iron ash receptacles.