[Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Solihull R.D.C.

  • Solihull (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Solihull R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is a pleasure to be able to report at last that mains are in course of being laid by the North Warwickshire Water Company to supply the hamlet and almshouses of Temple Balsall. The polluted wells of that area have been for many years under the consideration of the District Council, and the obvious remedy is now being taken owing to a great extent of the necessity of a large residence on the course of the proposed main. The water supply of the Solihull and Meriden Joint Isolation Hospital at Catherine de Barnes has been derived from a shallow well which has naturally been found at times insufficient to provide adequately for so large an institution, and the supply from this source broke down altogether in the autumn. Since then water has been supplied by means of water-carts to make up the deficiency. Recently also water has been pumped from a new well in course of sinking, and this water has been used in the Hospital for purposes not requiring a pure supply. The new well has been sunk with great difficulty to a considerable depth in the drift gravel, and it is proposed to keep out the surface water from this stratum and to tap a supply from beneath the next impermeable stratum. If a sufficient supply giving a good analysis is obtained within a reasonable time, all requirements will be met. but it appears to me that it would ha ve been better to have arranged for an extension of the water main as suggested, before the hospital was built, at the Local Government Board Inquiry as an alternative. The number of new houses with regard to which occupa¬ tion certificates have been granted during the year under the Public Health (Water) Act with respect to water supplies from private wells was 31, these houses being supplied from a total of 20 new wells. This total does not represent all the new