Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the parish of Bulkington / by George Thomas Bulkington, Superintending Inspector.

  • Clark, George Thomas, 1809-1898.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the parish of Bulkington / by George Thomas Bulkington, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which, at my visit, was in a filthy state with an open pit. The pump had been dry for seven years, and the people have occasionally to pay Id. and 2d. a-week for soft water. There is a large open ash-pit, the dust from which is blown by the wind into the houses. The court is badly paved. The rents here vary from Is. to Is. 6c?. a-week. At Mr. Cox's houses, the house filth is all thrown into the road. There is a large foul ash-pit which receives the night-soil. Towards the town end, the gutters fall into a deep, broad, and very offensive side ditch, which has no regular outlet. It extends along the road with occasional muck- heaps upon its edge. Here is the soft-water well; a mere cavity, partly beneath a coal-shed, not lined or kept clean, and in a very dirty state. 16. Franklin's yard has a privy, discharging into an ash-pit, the contents of which are much blown about by the wind. There is a foul open gutter here, and a pigsty. 17. The Coventry-road, though a turnpike, is in as bad a con- dition as the rest. The gutters are open and charged with offensive matter, and terminate in large open ditches by the road side. A soughing tile-drain leads from a back yard beneath the old Chequers' Inn, and is much complained of. These houses have no privies. 18. At Mr. T/iomas's buildings, where the policeman resides, are seven houses to one privy. This place was kept as clean as circumstances would admit of, but the cesspool was very offensive, and much complained of, as affecting the houses. WatMris yard is unpaved, rather crowded, and has a bad privy and open pit, the oozing from which extends into a dwelling-room and a pantry. A narrow line of stagnant drain extends along the back of the house, and there is a slaughter-house attached: a fatal case of fever occurred here recently. 19. Mr. Deiois has an open and very foul farm-yard, the drainage from which runs clown a side ditch at the bottom of the town. There is also a foul drain from W. Taylor's farm- yard, which runs beneath a number of houses, in which several cases of typhus-fever have occurred, and one proving fatal. Near this is a second soft-water well, much used. This, how- ever, is a mere muddy pit in which, when I saw it, a litter of puppies had been recently drowned, and the banks were trodden down by cattle. There is another of these wells on the Bed- worth-road, in even a still dirtier state. The water of this well is much used as a remedy for sore eyes. The gutters in this quarter of the village, in wet weather, overflow the road, and, at one point, where the road is steep, produce in frosty weather a very dangerous nuisance. 20. Church-street is in a very dirty state. In one house the pantry is drained into from the privy, and a public ash-pit by the road-side is, in windy weather, a very serious evil. Mrs.