Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the municipal borough of Brecon / by George Thomas Clark, Superintending Inspector.

  • Clark, George Thomas, 1809-1898.
Date:
1849
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the municipal borough of Brecon / by George Thomas Clark, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I distance from the town, and not in such close proximity to the I dwellings of the poor. 59. Local Acts.—There are two. The Commissioners' I Act, 16 Geo. III., cap. 56; and the Market Act, May 9, I 1838. REMEDIES. 60. Brecon stands principally in need of drainage and I water supply. An opinion has prevailed in the town that the latter is needless, and that it would be sufficient to divert I a rill of water through the main sewers. Such a plan would I leave the house drains uncleansed, whereas any arrangement I that kept these scoured must of necessity cleanse the main drains. Besides this, a proper water supply thus applied, by I allowing of the use of small glazed tube-drains of earthenware, I will materially diminish the cost of sewerage. A house water I supply and a system of house and main drainage are inseparably I connected. 61. Water Supply.—The proposed water supply will be I drawn from Cwm Sober at a point about 3000 yards distant I from the town, about 160 feet above its lowest level, and com- I manding every house in the town. This water, Avhen analysed I by Dr. Playfair, was of 7 • 8° of hardness. 62. A leat will lead the water into a reservoir containing two days' supply, whence a clay pipe will convey it by an easy fall to a point above the highest level in the town. Here a second reservoir, also containing two days' supply, should be formed, and from it iron pipes may be led all over the town and its suburb of Llanfaes. 63. The water is peculiarly bright and clear. It is soft, of excellent quality, abundant in quantity, and at a level to com- mand, by natural pressure, every roof in the town. The arrangements will be very simple, and the present water-works j will be wholly superseded. 64. Sewers and Drains.—The general disposition of the ground is very favourable for drainage, and even the flat tracts upon the Usk are considerably above the usual level of that river opposite the town, and very much above its level at a mile distant. 65. The sewers from the west, or right bank of the Honddu, will converge upon the three lower bridges, crossing the two upper, and being, if necessary, carried below the other by the canal feeder. 66. The drainage of the east, or left bank of the Honddu, will, in like manner, converge upon the head of the Watton, and there, or further on, receiving the drainage from other quarters, the whole will flow by a deep main culvert along the Watton to a point below the turnpike on the river, the fall leading it under the canal. -At this Point therc wil1 sti11 be a considerable fall