[Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Whitstable U.D.C.

  • Whitstable (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1914
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Credit: [Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Whitstable U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    o The water carriage system extends almost through¬ out the District, but there is a small area which has not been previously sewered, and where cesspools still exist, but nearly all of them will disappear when the houses can be connected up to the new drainage system. The cesspools are emptied by the Council's employees. Water-closets are in use throughout the District, but in all the older parts of the Town, unfortunately, they are not provided with any mechanical means of flushing. The District is not adequately supplied with a sufficient number of public lavatories and urinals, and the closing of the old Town Station with its lavatory accommodation has made this want much more felt in that part of the Town, and some schemes have been brought forward to deal with the matter. Land has been acquired from the Admiralty on the West Beach, and a public lavatory is to be erected, to take the place of the temporary one which supplied a long felt want last year. In a town like this which attracts a large number of visitors, many of whom only come for the day, an adequate number of public conveniences is essential, and their absence leads to unavoidable nuisances. HOUSE REFUSE. This is collected twice weekly throughout the District from various utensils from old boxes to disused baths, which are placed on the pavement outside the houses. In many cases these have to be carried from the back yard through the house to be placed there, where they then become the happy hunting ground of stray dogs, and the contents littered about offend the eye and act as a possible centre of infective disease by attracting flies, which contaminate the food supply. A great improvement