[Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough.

  • Eastbourne (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1914
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Credit: [Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MICROSCOPICAL EXAMINATIONS. No suspended matter. No infusoria, etc., observed. BACTERIOLOGICAL REPORT. Total number of organisms (gelatine 22° c.) ... 38 per c.c. Total number of organisms (agar 38° c.)... ... 14 per c.c. Spore-bearing organisms (gelatine 22° c.) ... 3 per 10 c.c. Total gelatine liquefying organisms 22° c.) ... 2 per c.c. Organisms of coli-typhoid group were looked for both by enrichment and direct plating, and none were found in 200 c.c. of the water. B. enteritidis sporogenes was not found in 200 c.c. CONCLUSIONS. As a result of the chemical, microscopical, and bacteriological examination, I am of the opinion that the water is free from pollution. (Signed), M. WYNTER BLYTH. Sewerage and Drainage. The Sewerage of Eastbourne is in the Department of the Borough Engineer. The whole of the sewage, except some of that of the Infectious Diseases Hospital, and some of the surface water, passes into the sea at Langney Point, some distance to the east of the Borough in Pevensey Bay. Owing to the levels of a portion of the Borough, the fall is only natural at low tide ; at high tide some of the sewage has to be lifted by the aid of Shone’s Pneumatic Ejectors. In two parts of the town the sewage has to be raised to the level of the main sewers by pneumatic < jectors—viz., in Compton Street and Bourne Street. The system works very well. The dangerous part of the Infectious : Useases Hospital sewage is cremated at the Hospital. The sewage farm at Hampden Park has been abandoned, the work of laying pipes for conveying sewage into the main outfall and into the sea having been completed. The water-carriage system is practically universal in Eastbourne, the few exceptions being in onnection with agricultural buildings in outlying districts.