[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Tewkesbury.

  • Tewkesbury (England). Council.
Date:
1937
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    ii (e) Hospitals. The Tewkesbury Voluntary Hospital, opened in 1935, has accommodation for 20 patients, and is available for cases in the Borough and surrounding district. The Tewkesbury Isolation Hospital, with accommodation for 26 cases (17 Scarlet Fever cases; 5 Diphtheria cases and 4 cubicle wards) had unfortunately to be closed on September 30th, 1937, largely owing to lack of support from ajacent areas. It is to be hoped that it may be possible to re-open it shortly, as it is of quite modern design, having been built in 1910. ii (f). Mortuary. There is a small mortuary, the property of the Corporation, It cannot be considered entirely satisfactory. Sanitary Circumstances of the Area. Section C. I (i) Water. Almost all the houses in the more populous partjs of the district are supplied from the mains of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Joint Water Board. Frequent analyses of the water are made at the Tewkesbury purification works by a full-time chemist, and the results show that the water is of excellent quality after chlorination. There has been no shortage during the year. I (q) Sewage Disposal. There are two sewage disposal works in the Borough, the smaller one at Newtown deals with houses on the Ashchurch Road, while the other, adjoining Lower Lode Lane deals with the main bulk of the sewage of the town. The Newtown works appear to deal with the sewage sat¬ isfactorily; but this cannot be said of the other works. These latter merely consist of two sedimentation tanks in parallel; they are situated at a low level and are flooded when the river rises to any extent. They are quite inadequate for the work and provide practically no purification of the crude sewage*. The question of new sewage works was considered advisable in 1931 and a consultant engineer (M. G. Weekes, Esq.) sub¬ mitted a scheme to the Council, which involved the provision of entirely new works on the Gloucester Road at an estimated cost of £23,000. It appears that the whole scheme of sewage disposal in the town will again have to be seriously considered by the Council,