[Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds (England). City Council.
Date:
1899
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Credit: [Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    like a reasonable time, and although an effort was made early in the year, when the building weather was favourable, to get rid of a large number of the objectionable middens which become so offensive and dangerous during the hot weather, it was found difficult to get the owners to execute the work, and case after case had to be taken before the Stipendiary. The result has been excellent. Owner after owner was fined for not carrying out the order of the Corporation, until at length a great rush was made to Mr. Swallow’s office with plans for the new closets required. During the year new water-closets or trough closets had been provided to the number of 2,001*, of these 25 1 were additional closets required for property where those already provided were less than one for every two houses, while 1,750 were those in which water-closets were required for houses where privies already existed. In most cases the notice issued was in order to secure both these objects at the same time. Trough closets.—The Committee also resolved in the course of the year to discourage the further erection of trough closets, and where new closets were to be erected to require ordinary water-closets where at all practicable. The complaints so frequently made of the offensiveness of these conveniences, especially in hot weather, have been met by the addition each day during the summer of a deodorizer to the water when the closet is refilled. During the hotter part of the year certain of those closets, especially those under dwellings, have been attended to seven instead of six times a week. 6leansing.—Gully flushing and cleansing generally was specially attended to during the hot weeks of summer. Special work of this kind was done in the South-East Registration District, and is referred to elsewhere (p. 89). Exclusive of 37 additional and 84 substituted for factories and workshops.