[Report 1902] / Medical Officer of Health, Northamptonshire County Council.

  • Northamptonshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1902
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Credit: [Report 1902] / Medical Officer of Health, Northamptonshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sewage Disposal works, as distinguished from their existing farm, although the County Council has been assured by the I own Clerk that negotiations are going on with that view. It is also a matter of regret that the Sewage Disposal works at Kettering have not proved successful during the year in preventing very serious pollution of the River Ise. It appears to me that the amount of land available there for the treat¬ ment of the sewage effluents from the settling tanks is much less than is required, and the attention of the Urban District Council has been drawn to this matter. Pollution of the Ri\ei Welland, too, has been justly complained of in con¬ nection with the sewage effluents from the sewage farm at Market Harborough and with the discharge of sewage at several points from the village of LUBENHAM, both of which are situated within the Administrative County of Leicestershire. I put myself into communication with the neighbouring County Medical Officer of Health, and he has commenced to deal with these matters. Continuing the system, initiated two years since, of proceeding with the abatement of river- pollution in sections of water-sheds, I reported that schemes for dealing with sewage outfalls were necessary at Badby, Newnham, Everdon, Dodford, Weedon, and Flore in the Daventry Rural District, and at Harpole, KlSLINGBURY, Bugbrooke, and Nether Heyford in the Northampton Rural District. The Councils of both these Rural Districts were communicated with, in order that they might proceed without delay to carry out such work as might be necessary to ensure proper effluents passing into the River Nene. A good deal of attention was paid during the year 1902 to the subject of Isolation Hospital Accommodation. Some of this was due in part to the power granted to County Councils under the Isolation Hospitals Act, 1901, to contribute to certain expenses of hospitals built under the Public Health Act, 187j, and in pait to the fears occasioned by the prevalence of small-pox throughout the country. I have already referred