[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough.

Chesterfield (England). Borough Council.

Date:: 1904

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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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compared with £58 10s. Od. per 1,000 when the removal of house refuse was done by contractors. The amount of refuse removed was 13,024 loads, which was disposed of as follows :—12,658 loads went to the destructor, 286 was taken to tips, and 180 loads went to farmers. All the refuse that was tipped was dry and of a harmless character. The refuse taken to farmers was from middens in the extreme East and West ends of the Borough, and was put on the land without creating a nuisance. The numbers of emptyings of ashpits, the amount of refuse removed from the different Wards, and the cost of labour for removing the refuse in the night is as follows :— North. South. West. Total. No. of emptyings 3,338 8,091 3,712 10,186 No. of loads 4,226 4,055 3,675 11,956 s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Cost per load 1 3£ 1 4* 1 9J 1 6 There are 576 tenements have their refuse stored in portable refuse bins which are emptied weekly, in the day time. From this, 1,068 wagon loads were removed, the cost being £165 6s. Id., or 5s. 8d. per house. Housing of the Working Classes.—Many houses have been built during the last few years, so that it does now appear desirable for any action to be taken in the matter beyond seeing that houses are kept in proper repair, and obtaining the abatement of nuisances. Systematic Inspection.—Houses were visited and inspected as follows :—North Ward. Holywell Street, 11 ; Devonshire Street, 24 ; Newbold Road, 16 ; Compton Street, 16; Foljambe Road, 11 ; Sheffield Road, 45 ; Prospect Street, 46 ; New Square, 81 ; Albert Street, 61 ; Soresby Street, 13 ; Saltergate, 80; Rutland Road, 10 ; New Queen Street, 10 ; Total, 324. South Ward. Park Road, 18; Hipper Street, 6; Hasland Road, 10 ; Derby Road, 24 ;