[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Brackley R.D.C.

  • Brackley (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Brackley R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHALCOMBE. The majority of the inhabitants obtain water from one of three sources. (1) Lion’s Head Spring—The spring discharges through a pipe by the road side. (2) A spring situated by the side of a stream in Berry’s Close. The stream at this point is grossly polluted and it is possible for the spring water to be polluted with stream water. (3) The seventeen Council Houses are served by a piped supply from a water tower fed by a nearby well. A number of inhabitants have to carry water considerable distances from one or other of these three sources. The first two sources have frequently been polluted and building in proximity to the third will possibly lead to its pollution in the future. CHIPPING WARDEN. Four or five of the larger houses have private piped supplies, but the greater part of the village obtains water from wells of varying depths in the Marlstone. Many of these become short in summer and a number of them are at times so polluted as to be- come undrinkable. CROUGHTON. A public piped water scheme for this village was completed in 1937. CULWORTH. The village depends mainly for water on shallow wells in the Northampton sand. To serve the Council’s new Housing Estate of ten houses, a borehole is in course of construction, upon the com- pletion of which a piped supply will be available to these houses. EVENLEY. The greater part of the village obtains water from a privately owned scheme serving a number of standpipes. EYDON. A shallow well situate to the west of the village supplies water by gravity to a number of houses and to standpipes. It is imposs- ible to supply houses near the well by gravity. The collecting area is not protected in any way. This supply is unsatisfactory and the