Dr Airy's report to the Local Government Board on the water supply of Atherstone and Polesworth in Warwickshire.

  • Airy, Hubert, 1838-1903.
Date:
[1878]
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Credit: Dr Airy's report to the Local Government Board on the water supply of Atherstone and Polesworth in Warwickshire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    6 4. The Sanitary Authority should consider in what way they can best use their power (under sections 122-125 and 131-133 of the Public Health Act, 1875) to secure the proper isolation of infected persons, other than paupers, and the proper disinfection of infected things belonging to them. POLESWORTH. 1. The Sanitary Authority should first take advice as to the possibility of bringing a supply of good water into the village from either side of the valley or from both sides. Should that be found impracticable, it would be necessary to endeavour to make the existing wells (if possible) safe from pollution. Steps should be taken to compel the closing of those which yield notoriously bad water, or water which on analysis is found to be so polluted as to be dangerous to health. Filth of whatever kind should be removed to a safe distance from the wells. Communication between the wells and the river on the north side should be cut off. On the south side there is urgent need of a proper supply to the new rows of miners’ cottages above the canal, so that the cottagers shall not be tempted to take water from the canal itself. The spring of water in the canal bank should be secured from danger of pollution. 2. The same reform of arrangements for excrement disposal which is required in Atherstone is also required in Polesworth as a necessary means of guarding the wells ffom contamination. LONDON: Printed by Geokge E. Eyre and William Spoxtiswoode. Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. For Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. [14655.- 100.—2/78.] *