[Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnsley (Union) R.D.C.

  • Barnsley (England : Unitary authority). Rural District Council.
Date:
1899
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Credit: [Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnsley (Union) R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Water Supply of Cudworth and Stainbro’ derived from the Ingbirchworth Reservoir of the Barnsley Corporation is satisfactory in quality, and, as a rule, adequate in quantity. Billingle}^ is or shortly will be, fairly well supplied, though with rather hard water by the Dearne Valley Water Compan}^ At Carlton, where complaints have been made frequently during the year of the quality of the water supplied from Lord Wharncliffe’s Reservoir, there is hope that arrange- ments will shortly be made for a better supply, possibly from the Waterworks of the Barnsley Corporation. At Notton the report made by the County Analyist on samples lately sent him, show that there is need for improve- ment, whilst at Brick Row on Woolley Edge, there has been practically no change since the appeal made to the Local Government Board against the notices given b}'^ this Authority. In the Scavenging of the district there has been an improvement since the appointment of a Scavenging contractor for Carlton, as well as for Cudworth. The other townships are more agricultural in their population, and as a rule the scavenging is sufficiently well carried out by the owners of property and the neighbouring farmers. There are still some houses hardly fit for habitation on account of the dampness in various parts of the district, and four have been closed during the year. So far as infectious disease is concerned the condition of the district is satisfactory, at the end of the year not a single notification having been received between the 13th of December and the 7th of January of the present year. I am. Gentlemen, Yours obediently, MICHAEL THOS. SADLER, (M.D.^ Lond.), Medical Officer of Health. Barnsley, Jan. 31 ST, 1900.