[Report 1963] / Medical Officer of Health, Windsor R.D.C.

  • Windsor (Berkshire, England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1963
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Credit: [Report 1963] / Medical Officer of Health, Windsor R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WATER SUPPLYJttNTD/ 2# SAMPLE FROM DOMESTIC SUFPLY-nThis' sample is clear and bright in appearance, has a reaction on the alkaline side of neutrality and is.free from metals apart from a minute trace of copper. The water is hard in. character but its hardness and its content of mineral and saline constituents in solution are not excessive. It is of a high standard of organic quality and bacterial purity. These, results §how effective treatment and indicate a pure and wholesome water, suitable, for public supply purposes. The trace of copper in the sample is likely to.be derived from a copper pipe and not to be representative, of the sppply. . October,1 9 4. ‘ ]*‘ SWIMMING POOLS Eight samples of water from swimming pools were submitted for bacteriological examination during 1963-, with, in each case, satisfactory 0 results - i.e., Probable number of coliform bacilli, MacConkey 2 days 37 = 0 per 100 m.l. The pools concerned are in use at Public, Private and L0A. Schools, a training College and at one set of business premises. REFUSE DISPOSAL The Council maintain a weekly collection of household refuse, which is disposed of Vy controlled tipping on leasehold land at South Ascot. Three 1i/2l cub. yafdl vehicles- and one- ’Tractor ( on the Tip ) are in use for this purpose, in addition to-one elderly 10 cub. yard, side loading vehicle, retained as a spare, and capable of very useful work in the case of breakdowns. Trade refuse is not collected except to a limited extent in one Parish, but by payment of an .annual fqe* Traders can take their refuse to the Council’s Tip for free dispQqql. ... ... In vqQv/ of limited space the Council continued its Agreement with.an adjoining Authority, under which, approximately^one third of the District's refuse is disposed of at that Authority’s tip. At the same time, contact is being maintained with other neighbouring Councils with whom it may become necessary to combine,' in formulating and establishing, some form of mechanical disposal. SEWAGE ■ DISPOSAL In January 1959 a Public Enquiry was held into proposals by the Council to construct new sewerage works at Blacknest. Such proposals were.duly rejected and no.other sites being available, the Council proceeded to consider the modernisation of the existing works at Whitmoor Bog. Just four years after the 1959 Enquiry, i.e., in January 1963, thenMinister intimated his decision to approve in principle the proposals to re-construct the Whitmoor Bog Works, and during that year all possible effort was made by the Council to finalise the modernisation scheme. The re-constructed works are being designed to serve a population of 16,000 but the layout; of the works would enable the Council to provide capacity for an additional 7,000 persons if necessary.