Dr. Theodore Thomson's report to the Local Government Board on persistence of enteric fever in the Swinton and Pendlebury Urban District : and on the sanitary circumstances and administration of the district.

  • Thomson, Theodore.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Dr. Theodore Thomson's report to the Local Government Board on persistence of enteric fever in the Swinton and Pendlebury Urban District : and on the sanitary circumstances and administration of the district. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Summary of Sanitary Work attended to during the year 1896 : — Nuisances and Repairs, &c., Necessary to Property. Defective soil pipes and water-closet arrangements Dilapidated state of closet and ashpit walls and wet ashpits Defective sinkstone pipes, and paving around gullies and the pipes being directly connected with the drains ... ..< Blocked gullies and drains, and defective condition of same Defective structural condition of houses—chimney flues, spouting, roofings and ceilings, cellar floors Allowing waste water to lodge on surface of yards, streets, and pB/8SB;^6S * • • ••• • •' • ••• • Dirty state of houses^ premises, and yards . Accumulation of, and deposit of, refuse, Vegetables, and decayed fish, &c., in prohibited places Overcrowding... Defective state of urinals and manure receptacles Unsound food offered for sale (onions) Inefficient emptying of ashpits and clearing afterwards Firing of house chimneys ... ... ... Keeping poultry in house (ducks) Keeping pigs in contravention of bye-laws ... 11 44 17 58 15 21 10 28 5 12 1 W 2# 1‘ 4 Summary of Sanitary Work attended to during the year 1897 Nuisances and Repairs, &c., Necessary to Property. Closets and ashpit walls requiring repairs ... ... ... 95 Wet ashpits, “ owing chiefly to blocked drains and tenants throw¬ ing waste water into covered ashpits ” ... ... ... 88 Depositing ashpit refuse in prohibited places ... ... 11 Ashpits without doors ... ... ... ... ... 68 Broken and short slopstone pipes, “ allowing waste water to drip down housewall ” ... ... ... ... ... 407 Defective pavement around gullies in yards, “ allowing waste water to lodge ”... ... ... ... ... ... 36 6 Untrapped drains. “ Slopstone pipes directly connected with drains and untrapped grids in yards ” ... ... ... 47 Blocked gullies. “ Chiefly tenants’ fault for not clearing same ” 29 Defective drains and broken gullies ... ... ... 42 Dirty houses and accumulation of rubbish, &c., in yards ... 14 Defective structural condition of houses : “ Walls, roofs, and spouting” ... ... ... ... ... ... 32 Inefficient draining of yards and passages ... ... ... 6 Firing of house chimneys ... ... ... ... 8 Defective manure receptacles ... ... ... ... 5 Overcrowding... ... ... ... ... ... 2 It will be observed that the nuisances “attended to” in 1897 far out¬ number those attended to in 1896. This is, in part at least, to be attributed to an investigation made by a Committee of the Urban District Council appointed to conduct a “ street-to-street visitation ” of Swinton and Pendlebury. In searching for an explanation of the persistence of enteric fever in Swinton and Pendlebury, no evidence was forthcoming which would justify its being referred either to the water supply or to the sewerage of the district. For the water supply, as stated, is derived from the Manchester mains, and is supplied to Manchester and to other districts which are not marked by a like persistence of fever. The sewerage of the Swinton and Pendlebury district comprises two entirely separate systems ; and there was