[Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, West Bromwich County Borough.

  • West Bromwich (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1917
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Credit: [Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, West Bromwich County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The number of loads delivered to tips by our own men was 8,089, the estimated tonnage being 8,817. In all, then, 12,125 loads or 13,223 tons were collected by our own men, but in addi¬ tion a considerable number of loads were collected by the contrac¬ tors for the Workhouse and Wigmore Schools and by the former nightsoil contractor from Spoil Lane and Lyndon Wards and delivered to tips, and of these we have no definite record. The cost of removal in spite of the unsatisfactory service has, owing to the further increase in the rates of horse hire and war bonuses to workmen, risen from £2,964 13s. 8d. in 1916 to £3,497 Os. lid. The total cost of refuse removal was £3,823 4s. Id. as com¬ pared with £3,412 5s 3d. in 1916, the annual cost of collecting refuse from a house with a privy being 19s. 10‘6d., the cost from a house with a water-closet 4s. 9'4d. I am, Gentlemen, Yours obediently, H. H. SPEARS, Fellow Sanitary Inspectors’ Assoc., Chief Sanitary Inspector.