[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Herefordshire Combined District/s (Bromyard R.D.C., Dore R.D.C., Hereford R.D.C., Ledbury R.D.C., Leominster R.D.C., Bromyard U.D.C.).

  • Herefordshire Combined Districts.
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Herefordshire Combined District/s (Bromyard R.D.C., Dore R.D.C., Hereford R.D.C., Ledbury R.D.C., Leominster R.D.C., Bromyard U.D.C.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HOUSE ACCOMMODATION. The average number of persons per house at the last Census was 4.2, and of the 2,065 houses in the district 174, or 8 per cent, were unoccupied. No houses were certified by me as unfit for human habitation during 1908. There are many substantially built houses in the district and the defects found in others are such as in the majority of cases can be easily rectified. SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE. The residential houses in the district are provided with water closets, and the drainage discharges into cesspools or on to land or directly into a watercourse. Nearly all other houses and cottages have privy closets : except on the Hampton Court estate, there are only a very few pail or earth closets. In view of the large number of shallow wells in some portions of the district, especially in Kingsland, the substitution of some form of earth closet for the privies is very desirable. HOUSEHOLD REFUSE. The District Council does not collect household refuse. WATER SUPPLY. I have not been able to find any resolution defining a “ reasonable distance ” within which there should be a supply of water to houses. Taking the district as a whole the supply is obtained from shallow wells on the premises of the inhabitants. Exceptions are in the parish of Hope, where pipes have been laid from a hillside spring to the schools, and to three stand pipes accessible by the villagers, and in the Ashton part of Eye parish, where two stand-pipes supply 14 cottages with water brought in pipes from a spring on the hillside. Certificates were given under Sec. 6 of the Public Health (Water) Act, 1878, with respect to 5 cottages, a farm house and a vicarage. DAIRIES, COWSHEDS AND MILKSHOPS. The following Regulations were adopted by the Leominster Rural District Council on the 20th March, 1908 :— Interpretation. I.—Throughout these regulations the expression “ The Council ” means the Rural District Council of Leominster. The expression “ Cowshed ” includes any dairy in which milking cows may be kept, and the expression “ Cowkeeper ” means any person following the trade of a cowkeeper or dairyman who is, or is required to be, registered under the Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops Order of 1885.