[Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Middleton Borough.

  • Middleton (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1949
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Middleton Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    14/24 (page 14)
    Water Supply. The town is supplied with water by the Heywood and Middleton Joint Water Board. The supply is upland surface water, of good quality. Details of the catchment area and reservoir installations have been given in previous reports. No. of houses supplied by the Joint Board ... 10,969 No. of baths in Borough ... ... ... 6,027 The proposed occupation of the Board’s gathering grounds as a training area by the Military Authorities has been strenuously opposed by the Board. Meetings have taken place at Regional Offices of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning, with the Regional Officer, Ministry of Health and with Military Representa¬ tives on the site. During the year the following examinations were made, and the results were satisfactory in all cases. (a) Raw Water—Bacteriological... ... ... 22 Chemical ... ... ... 24 (b) Water going into supply where treatment is installed— Bacteriological ... ... ... 35 Chemical ... ... ... 32 Chlorination of the water is in operation, the dosage being 0.2 parts per million. Supplies are collected from moorland gathering grounds, stored in impounding reservoirs, subjected to chalk addition and sedi¬ mentation, passed through sand filters and chlorine added when entering supply pipes. The Analyst declares the water as supplied to the consumer to be “free from lead”. As a precaution against contamination, chalk is added at the rate ot ij grains per gallon and when necessary Soda Ash is added at the rate of J grain per gallon. Existing water mains have been extended by 726 yards during the year for housing development at Hollins Estate, Stannicliffe and Alkrington. A small number of outlying farms have independent water supplies from wells. SANITARY SERVICES. Closet Accommodation. The following is a list of the types of closets existing in the Borough at the end of the year ^ jlt TABLE XIII. Privy middens Pail closets Waste-water closets Fresh-water closets 63 195 2,873 6,698