[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Bradford-on-Avon U.D.C.

  • Bradford-on-Avon (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Bradford-on-Avon U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    small, and more attention should be paid to it, both for the sake of the milk and the health of the cows. Every year more land is being laid down to grass and rnore cows are kept, yet there are no bye-laws to regulate the building, paving, and draining of cow sheds, and as this district is almost a purely agricultural one from which milk is sent to Eondon as well as factories round this neighbourhood the purity of milk becomes a very pressing necessity. Whitewashing should be carried out regularly at least twice a 3^ear, not onl}^ the walls of the sheds, but the posts, roofs, and mangers. The floors should be of some impermeable material, such as concrete 8 inches with a 2 inch surface of cement, properly guttered, and rough- ened so that the cattle will not slip on the surface and the fluid will be able to run away. The question has been raised why should owmers be put to so great an expense if the cows are onh'brought into the sheds to be milked ? The answer is, I think, simple, as it is at milking time when the risk of con- tamination from the surrounding atmosphere takes place ; and it must be borne in mind that if there are large stacks of manure outside, but close to the sheds, there is still great risk to the milk, even when the sheds are kept clean. Water Supply. Holt and Broughton and part ot Atworth are supplied by the private enterprise of G. P. Fuller, Esq., the water coming form a spring at Great Chalfield. Winsley, and the lower parts of Limpley Stoke, b}^ the Bath High Level Co , Monkton Farleigh parth^ by a public pump and 3 standing taps down the street, Wraxall, Westwood and Wingfield b}-^ wells. A scarcity of water, not only for drinking, but any purpose at all, has been felt ver}’ greath^ at Westwood, Monkton Farleigh, and Wraxall during the past 12 months. Taking Westw^ood first, a scheme is under con- sideration, by wLich this village will be supplied b}^ the Bath High Level Co., and I should like to make two propositions : (i) that the Parish Council ofWinkfield also get their water from the same source ; and (2) that a cistern large enough to supply Westwood, or in the case of Winkfield joining, to suppL^ both villages, for at least 4 da^^s: the reason being that a leakage may, and has occurred at Winsley, to the main supph' pipe and then if there was a four day suppl}^ to fall back upon, there wmuld not be ain^ risk of shortage, such as has happened there. 1 am surprised that wdndmills are not used more extensiveiy for this purpose. Take Monkton Farleigh, there is a well at Park Wood which, I believe, has never been