Dr. R.W. Johnstone's report to the Local Government Board on the sanitary circumstances and administration of the Rural District of Easington.

  • Johnstone, R. W.
Date:
1909
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Credit: Dr. R.W. Johnstone's report to the Local Government Board on the sanitary circumstances and administration of the Rural District of Easington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Village. Supplied by Pumping Stations. Mains Owned by Wingate Wingate Water Com- Company. Station Town ... pany. District Council. Hutton Henry... n n South Wingate .. n ii Castle Eden Colliery. Monk Hesledon.. Castle Eden Private. South Hetton ... South Hetton Colliery Company. Thornley Thornley Colliery ... Wheatley Hill... 'll 11 ••• Trimdon Trimdon Colliery Kelloe Kelloe Colliery High Wheatley V 11 District Council. Hill. Wingate Lane... 11 11 n >• Horden Horden Colliery Com- pany. Company. Seaton Village... A well fed by a spring Private. As a rule, water is distributed by means of standpipes in the streets, but in Wingate village there is a tap in eacli house, although there is no sink, the idea being that sinks lead to waste of water. The occupier of a house not owned by a colliery company pays water rate in proportion to the valuation of his house, and he can have a tap on his premises if he cares to incur the expense of making the connection and laying the pipe. In colliery-owned houses all the rates are paid by the colliery company. There have been frequent complaints to the Board of scarcity of water at Hutton Henry. It is supplied by the Wingate and District Water Company, which obtains its water from Wingate Colliery, but the difference in levels between the service reservoir at Wingate and the service tanks at Hutton Henry is too small to keep the latter properly supplied. This scarcity of water is a serious danger to health, and may lead to outbreaks of disease through persons in need of water resorting to questionable sources of supply. I am informed that the district council have taken the matter in hand. Isolation Hospitals.—The rural district council have an isolation hospital at Thorpe, about a mile south of Easington, and the Easington and Sedgefield Joint Small-pox Hospital Board has a hospital in the township of Thornley, near the old Thornley Hall. The isolation hospital at Thorpe is a building of corrugated iron lined with wood. It has two ward blocks, the first containing two wards, 30 ft. by 20 ft., a nurses’ bedroom, kitchen, caretakers’ room (for a man and wife who act as porter and cook), scullery, surgery, bath, hand lavatory, and a single bed ward 10 ft. by 7 ft., besides two nurses’ bedrooms and one sitting-room. The second ward block has two wards 20 ft. by 20 ft. (each with an annexe contain- ing water-closet and movable bath), a kitchen, two nurses’ bed- rooms, nurses’ cloak room, lavatory, bath, and water-closet.
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