[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Holland County Council (Lincolnshire).

  • Holland (England). County Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Holland County Council (Lincolnshire). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUTTON BRIDGE URBAN.—The Chemical Works had notices served upon them to abate nuisances caused by fumes. They closed down and made good the defects. BOSTON RURAL.—-119 nuisances were abated. SPALDING RURAL. No note. EAST ELLOE RURAL.—'No note. CROWLAND RURAL.—d9 informal notices with reference to drain- age, 2 to water supply and 4 to closet accommodation were served. The results are not stated. REFUSE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL.—Prog ress in these matters was, as in previous years, of very limited extent. Some decades must probably elapse before the urban centres are equipped with up-to-date methods of dealing with their sewage and with refuse destructors. A still longer interval will be necessary before the rural householder apprehends the advantages of dealing with sewage by the simple means of garden irrigation and earth (not. ash) closets, as compared with the present system of creating poisonous underground centres for the causation of nuisance and disease in close proximity to practically every house outside the sewered towns. BOSTON URBAN.—14 vaults and 28 ash-closets were converted into slop-closets, making the closet accommodation in the town now 500 vaults,. 1782 ash-closets, 884 water-closets and 1112 slop-closets. SPALDING URBAN.—The scheme for disposal of sewage is still in abeyance. In the town there are a large number of water closets, 650 pan - closets, the remainder being privy vaults. Pans are removed and cleansed by the Scavenging Department twice weekly. Privy vaults are attended to by the householders. ’ ’ HOLBEACH URBAN.—There is no change since last year. LONG SUTTON URBAN.—No note. SUTTON BRIDGE URBAN.—-There are 120 pans, 337 vaults and 12 water closets in the district. The water closet accommodation cannot be increased owing to want of water. 2 houses without any closet accommodation are being dealt with. 25 houses have no drainage. In the cleaning area of the Urban Council there are 80 ashbins, 172 ash-pits and 117 ash-dumps. Weekly collections of refuse in portable receptacles have recently been started, and the system is acting very satisfactorily. Vaults and pails are emptied at night and the contents disposed of on land at a distance from the town. The surface drains have been cleaned out during the year and are now working satis- factorily, but private drains in King Street, Queen Street, and Prin- cess Street are silting up and require re-laying with a proper fall. 221 houses are connected with the drains.