[Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Newtown & Llandidloes R.D.C.

  • Newtown & Llandidloes (Wales). Rural District Council.
Date:
1944
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Credit: [Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Newtown & Llandidloes R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/32 (page 16)
    with a piped water supply. I believe that this could easily be obtained in Llangurig. 10. —The other parts of this distict lying at a high eleva- tion are Llanwyddelan and Llanllugan; these would be served from the Llyn Mawr Source, provided that water proved satisfactory in quantity and quality, and owing to the high elevation of the source (1276ft. A.O.D.) would not prove difficult. 11. —The present position as regards water supply is highly unsatisfactory throughout the whole of the Council’s area. It is causing almost insurmountable difficulties to all building and housing projects and improvements, and makes improved and cleaner milk production and farming general- ly very difficult. It causes much dissatisfaction among the people throughout the Council’s area and is a potent factor in causing the drift from rural areas to the towns, and, if con- tinued, will cause still further depopulation of this district. Men and women returning from the services will not be satisfied with a continuation of lack of elementary amenities, of which a plentiful supply of pure water is the first. Clause 3 of the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944 enables any 10 Local Government Electors to appeal to the Ministry o^ Health (Welsh Board of Health) as to whether the the pro- vision by the R.D.C.’s of “a supply of wholesome water in pipes” to any sizeable collection of houses “is practicable at a reasonable cost.” I believe that this right of appeal would be utilised in many localities in this area unless something is done'fairly soon. Whatever the outcome of these appeals they would cause friction and expense and maybe cause the Council to embark on several small, petty and unsatisfactory schemes whose total costs would in the aggregate involve the Council in considerable expense and result in unco-ordinated, unsupervised, untreated and generally unsatisfactory sup- plies (10 to 20 or more in number) all of which would have to be scrapped at some later date when the adoption of the more comprehensive scheme would be forced upon the Coun- cil by circumstances or Government decrees.