[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Bispham-with-Norbreck U.D.C.

  • Bispham-with-Norbreck (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Bispham-with-Norbreck U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The excreta is mostly removed by the “ Water Carriage ” system. Part of the Gynii Estate sewers empty (by arrange- ment) into the main sewer of the Blackpool Corporation, which main discharges into the sea at dead low water. It is necessary that a sewer should be laid from Red Bank Road to Albion Avenue so as to drain the Avenue and West gate. Schemes for the sew'ering of Tittle Bispham (from Mossham Lane to Bispham Lodge), Anchorsholme Lane East (from Fleetwood Road to Flash Meadow Terrace) and Blackpool Road (from Myrtle Bank to the Boundary with Carleton) have been prepared and submitted to the Council, and after due consideration have been deferred. All the above schemes arc urgently needed, especially the first two named. Although the main sewer at Xorbreck is completed, a number of the houses are still not connected, and these connections could easily be carried out at a very small cost and I think that this work should be done immediately. The Endowed School has been connected to the main sewer in Red Bank Road during the year. The length of 9 inch pipe sewer in Alexandra Road, between Grosvenor Road and IMontpelier Avenue has been taken up, and a new sewer of 12 inch pipes has been laid, at a proper gradient, this work has now remedied the nuisance that existed there. Owing to disagreeable and objectionable odours arising from Manholes in the District, solid covers have been placed ill the Manholes which are in close proximity to any houses, etc. This certainly prevents the odours arising at these IVIanholes, but where the Manholes ha\-e no covers