[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, West Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • West Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, West Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ' Soyland ... Springhead Goole E. ... Great Ouseburn S. Halifax E. Hnnslet E. Kiveton Park R. Penistone R. Pontefract R. Settle R. ... Tadcaster R. ... Inadequate. ... Inadequate at Austerlands, ... Inadequate at Snaith, Hook, Reedness, Swine- fleet, Whitgift, and Basefleet. ... Generally unsatisfactory. ... Inadequate at Upper Greetland, Clifton, and Norland. ... Inadequate at Thorp Stapleton, Newsham Green, and Middleton. ... Inadequate. ... Inadequate at Thurgoland, Crane Moor, and Oxspring. ... Inadequate at New Fry stone and Fairburn. ... Inadequate at Settle, Giggleswick, Ingleton, and Westhouse. ... Inadequate at Micklefield. Lead Poisoning.—This important subject has already received ; attention in the earlier part of this report (see page 7). It has been • forced upon many sanitary authorities in the West Riding in connection with P the public water supplies acting upon the leaden service pipes. The following i extracts from the local reports for 1896 are interesting. Mr. Steele, of I-Morley, observes :—“ The water supply has caused much anxiety during the “ year. In the spring and summer the water .... acted on “ lead—freely absorbing it, and causing many cases of lead poisoning.” Afterwards the Corporation took steps to apply chemical treatment to the water with the result that it “ no longer absorbs lead, and no fresh case of lead “ poisoning has occurred for many weeks. It only requires filtering beds to |“ be erected to make the water as good as any in the country, and this should I “ be done at once.” Hr. Scatterty explains that the portion of the Keighley supplies which is derived from the moors is filtered “ through Welsh coke “sand, limestone and polarite.” Mr. Brereton notes the action of the Morley water supplied to Gildersome. He says:—“The lead-solvent action of the water, though “ variable (ranging from *35 to 0.18 grain of lead per gallon) is now nearly nil. i, “ A sample drawn during the early morning of 16th December from a lead pipe “ about 30 yards in length yielded only 0.08 grain of lead per gallon.” Dr. Buncle complains strongly of the Wakefield water as supplied to Featherstone :—“ Complaints as to this are loud and numerous, and, I am “ bound to admit, well founded. We have taken precautions against lead “poisoning (the district being entirely free) ; Wakefield should do the same, “ and not send out adulterated water, at no time good, and frequently unfit for “ any purpose.” The following extract from Dr. Meredith Young’s Report to the Halifax Rural District Council is somewhat lengthy, but still it is so interesting that