[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Hebden Bridge U.D.C.

  • Hebden Bridge (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1898
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Hebden Bridge U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    14/16 (page 14)
    Nuisance Inspector’s Report. March 17th, 1899. Gentlkmen,— I beg to submit my Report for the Year 1898, being mj Eighteenth Annual One, on the Sanitary Work of the Council’s district. I continue to meet with an increased willingness on the part of property-owners to remedy sanitary defects without the necessity of publicly reporting them, which will account for the small proportion of cases brought under your notice in my monthly reports, as 1 have hitherto refrained from taking this course until I have been satisfied that the objects sought could not be otherwise attained. The Number of Houses at the close of the year was 1,847, of which 1,094 are supplied with water from the public mains. The remaining 753 are dependent on private supplies for all purposes, the tenants in many cases having to carry the water considerable distances in a dry season ; but 486 out of the 753 have the water piped on to the premises in the same way as those who draw their supplies Irom the mains, and in a large majority of cases the supply appears to be constant, but of course there are a few notable exceptions, which have already been brought to the notice of the Council in my monthly reports, and in my special report on the private water supplies of the district House Drainage, as usual, has formed an important item in the year’s work, requiring about 250 special inspections and consultations in order to see that the Council’s regulations were duly observed. In addition to the drains laid for new property, those of 52 old houses have either been repaired or relaid, and in 17 cases entirely replaced by new ones.