[Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Quarry Bank U.D.C.

  • Quarry Bank (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1897
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Credit: [Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Quarry Bank U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Witli tlic exception of one well in ();ik Street the whole of the North Eastern ])art is now ])rovided with South Staffordshire Water, hut the South Western ])art has 46 wells as previously stated if we iuelnde Mount Pleasant, 4’horns and Ainblecote J’oad. Pligli Street with about ISO houses has 4 wells iu use. About 160 houses depend either on these 51 wells or on rain water, or have no water su])[ilj Ijelougiug to them. [b] Cradley Forge and Hammer IbvN’ic. Tap Water has been recentl}- adopted by nearly all the inliabitants. A few use well water which has been condemned, and they are under notice for South Staffordshire Water to l)o laid on. [c] Birch Coppice or Saltwells Coppice includes 84 houses all recently connected to South Staffordshire Water Works mains. [d] Level Woods consists of 17 houses all supplied by well or surface water liable to pollution. The nearest South Stafford¬ shire Water Main is in Mill Street, Brierley Hill. 680 yards of 6 inch pipe wonld be reipdred to convey water to the houses at an outlay of £57 estimated at 3/- per yard. 'The house rentals are all low, e.g. £3 to £5 per year about, and the total annual water rate recoverable by South Staffordshire Muiter Company for these 17 houses at 1/3 ])er quarter |)er house would be £4 5s. I understand that until 10% [i.e. £5. 14] of the outlay is guaranteed either for ten years by the Council or by the increased rental of the houses that the South Stafford¬ shire M^ater Company could not be required to convoy the water to them. The Company is I am informed, now making certain concessions which may residt iu the water being soon laid on. [e] Mearce Coppice consists of about 20 houses. The nearest main is in Thorns Road, a distance of 260 yards from the nearest, and 500 yards from the furthest house, d’ho same arguments as to low rental, itc. Rpply here as iu the Level \\mods. There are numerous so-called wells, but most of them arc wisely rejected by the inhabitants as unfit for use. Seven of the houses have no water supply beyond rain water from the roofs collected in most cases iu 'cisterns, but iu one case iu a tub. Four or five have surface wells which becouu' dry iu the summer. 'I’hc remaining houses have the use of 3 wells which although rather superior to the others, are certainly open to suspicion of pollution. [f] As'I’on’s Fold consists of about 10 houses, all supplied by the Stourbridge Water (kimpanv.