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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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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    towards the river, and by leading the culvert further down it may be so arranged as to command, at a pressure of from 5 to .20 feet, the whole of the .meadows bordering the left bank of the .Usk. 68. The drains will be kept clean by the water supply from the houses, and without any peculiar or special flushing. 69. Sewage Distribution.—There is a considerable tract of1 meadow : land upon the left bank of the Usk, opposite to, and below, theitown, iupon which the sewage might be very • economically applied ima fluid state. The fall of the'Usk is tvery cousideTable, and, >if necessary, the sewer might be con- veyed at an easy fell below the town, until it reached a point J&t'-'which its contents could be distributed by natural'pressure. ■;. Opposite^-to -the town the fall would, only be sufficient for ordi- nary, irrigation. 'Also,'i'f the sewage'manure was found to be in-great demand,', the sewer could be led as far as the first oanalsloek,'where: its contents might be poured-into barges, and distributed, as at Manchester, by means of pumps and hose •-over the lands upon the banks of the canal. ■>T0. Boundaries.—T recommend ; that 'the'Public Health -Act be-applied ? to the'whole • of; the municipal borough, in- ' dufding th«''extra paroohiab districts now encompassed within its limits. / 71.' Charges.—The water supply, main sewerage, and house improvements,'proposed-to be applied* to-the town of Brecon, will be.paid for by three distinct rates. 'Of these the waier Tate 'will be a. general rate, but levied only upon those houses to; which water is supplied. The sewer rate will -also bea gene- ral rate, levied upon houses and land^brnt upon each rating of UheUattetfin the proportion of one«fourth only of the former. And the > private improvement rate', will be a private rate, levied upon suohdiouse property <as needs the • remedies, and in the 5 proportion? to. which each may need them. 72. The water rate will pay for the reservoir and the sti'eet pipes and; plugs, and the: repairs -and-working expenses of the whole ; the*-sewer .rate, will pay for the- street : sewers-and the imain outfalls of the town : and the private improvement- rate wiilLprovide seiwice^piipes -froin' the mains to the houses, drain- pipes from the houses into the street drains, proper privies or 'water-closets, dust-bins,t the ftll>ing<rup of cesspools, and the : paving the-courts and yards. i 73. -Supposing the number of houses in the borough- to be 1,287, the water rate and sewer rate will each amount to an iaverage charge of about one .penny a week. 1 To this is to be 'added, the charge lor private'improvements,'-wliich will amount itoivanother ) penny, sot Ithat, for an avemffe weekly charge of 3<Z.y oiu am annual ohargcof l- s. on eaeh house. Brecon will obtain the advantages Of a coin jilete water supply, drainage,and proper house accommodation, even for the -poorest of its inhabitants.