[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Barrowford U.D.C.

Barrowford (England). Urban District Council.

Date:: 1950

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Credit: [Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Barrowford U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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13 Sanitary Circumstances of the Area. No change has taken place in the water supply, which is obtained from Nelson Corporation. The supply has been satisfactory in quantity 01'^ quality during the year, and at the end of the year it was estimated tliat 1,84X dwellinghouses with an assumed population of USO had a direct supply of water from public mains. In addition there were 16 dwellinghouses, with approximately 1-0 inhabitants, which have a nrivate supply from wells or springs. All these latter*houses are on the outskirts of the district where there is no access to public mains for water supply. There are no houses in ihe area supplied by means of stand-pipes. Drainage and Sewerage. The sewage disposal works are owned by the local authority and are situate on ihe outskirts of the area. There is a natural fall thereto from all ports. Treatment consists of automatic screening, detritus tanks, primary and secondary settling tanks, percolating filters, and humus tanks, the effluent being finally discharged into Pendle Water. Only farms and a few houses are without a drainage system due to the distance from the main sewers. Rivers and Streams. Supervision is exercised by the Lancashire Rivers Board.