[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Northamptonshire County Council.

  • Northamptonshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Northamptonshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inspection, I was satisfied that the scheme was insufficient, but tliat by doubling the capacity of the tanks and dupli¬ cating them there was a fair prospect of a successful scheme. The District Council agreed to adopt the larger suggestion. A scheme for dealing with the Sewage effluents at Woodford in the Thrapston Rural District is under consideration, as is also one at Denford. In the WELLINGBOROUGH RURAL District the sewage disposal works for Irchester have been completed, and the scheme for Isham has been approved after * Inquiry by the Local Government Board. The effluent from Great Doddington was found unsatisfactorj^ during the year, as was also the management of the sewage farm at Earls Barton ; the latter has been greatly improved, and the former is being dealt with. The question of sewage disposal at Wilby has been necessarily temporarily delayed by the refusal of the Local Government Board to sanction a loan for the purpose, until they are satisfied that no further loans will be required to complete the scheme of public water supply at that place. The latter scheme is now well in hand. The position of Hears Ashby with regard to River Pollution remains the same, except that the Parish Council having been entrusted by the District Council with the consideration of schemes for dealing with the sewage outfalls, a further set¬ back has resulted from the recent failure to obtain the sanction of the Local Government Board to a scheme of sewage disposal which had, in my opinion, only a shadowy chance of being approved. This matter has noAV been in hand since the middle of the year 1001, and it appears to me to be quite time that it was ended. The time seems to me opportune for calling attention once again to the advantages to be derived from the Veterinary Inspection of Dairy Cattle and Cowsheds. I cannot give a better local illustration of the importance of this subject than by referring to the report of the Veterinary Inspector appointed for this purpose by the