[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, County Council of the Palatine of Chester / Cheshire County Council.

  • Cheshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, County Council of the Palatine of Chester / Cheshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MALPAS ktiiai District. Water duppiy.—Malpas icural District is supplied largely from the Liverpool Corporation main. The main runs through the town of Malpas, which it supplies; also the parish of liickley, a farm and two cottages at Oldcastle, and part of Norbury. Other parishes are supplied from public and private wells. The supply is constant and there are no complaints as to action on lead. There is a sufficient supply, except in dry weather; and the wells are fairly free from the risks of pollution. Eight samples of water were chemically analysed during the year and one bacteriologically, your Council paying for five of these and the owners the remainder. No extensions have been carried out this year. Pollution of Rivers and Streams.—In the Malpas liural District there seems to be little pollution of the streams except from house and farm drainage. The farm drainage and sewage is nearly all dealt with on the land. ^\o manufacturing waste or effluents cause pollution. Drainage, Sewerage, and Sewage Disposal.—Some im- provements have been carried out at Wrexham Load filter beds. In 1918 a new settling tank was made at Whitchurch Road and the filter beds renewed and better distributing arrangements made. The sewage for Malpas town is disposed of by bac- teriological treatment. There are three outfalls : one at Wells Lane, one at Whitchurch Road, and one at Wrexham Road, each consisting of a sedimentation tank, which empties on to three lots of filter beds, arranged in two tiers. None of the district, except Malpas town, has any system of sewers. In the small villages most of the houses have spearate cesspools. Isolated cottages run their sewage into cesspools or into the nearest water-course. Most of the farms deposit their sewage on to the land. A farm at Chorlton has a Dibdin’s slate bed installed for the treatment of its sewage. Isolation Hospitals.—The Isolation Hospital, Sealand, Chester. For small-pox, arrangements are made with Whit- church Small-pox Hospital. Housing.—Number of new houses built during 1920: 4; 28 in course of erection.