[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley R.D.C.

  • Chorley (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The sewage from Anderton and Heath Charnock is treated at the Sewage Works at Adlington, by agreement with the Council of that Urban District. There are eight (8) Sewage Disposal Works in your district, viz. one for the joint townships of Clayton and Whittle, three (3) for the township of Coppull, and one (1) each for Eccleston, Euxton, Wheelton and that part of the township of Heath Charnock the sewage from which cannot be conveyed to the Adlington Sewage Works. The sewage arriving at these works is treated by precipita- tion and land irrigation, but at the Coppull,Whittle, and Wheelton Sewage Disposal Works, there are series of filters also for treating the sewage that has passed through the precipitating tanks. The Sewage Disposal Works at Coppull are becoming too small for the township, and, in the near future, the question of extension will have to be considered by you. Generally, a very fair effluent is discharged into the streams. 4,—Closet Accommodation.—The general type of closet accommodation throughout the district is that of outside privies and privy middens. In a few townships where there are both a sufficient public water supply and a system of main drainage, the more recently built houses are, in a considerable number of cases, provided with water closets, though no bye-laws have been made to insure this provision. Indeed, in some instances, it would not be possible to make the conversion from privies to water closets without very extensive enlargement of the Sewage Disposal Works, notably at Coppull. Pail closets have, from time to time, been substituted for privies and privy middens, that is to say, m localities where there is a Public Scavenger. The number of the different styles of closets is approxi- mately as follows — Privies and Privy Middens ... 3500 Pail Closets 330 Fresh Water Closets 450 Waste Water Closets 35