Volume 9

The Health Exhibition literature : Health in relation to civic life. Vol. VIII.

  • International Health Exhibition (1884 : London, England)
Date:
1884
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    sider what are the essentials for village health and village life, besides the dwellings. I have spoken only of the dwell- ings. You, of course, have heard ad nauseam, that there are two other things absolutely necessary for all sound sanitary conditions of dwellings, whether in towns or not, namely, a proper water supply and drainage. With regard to the water supply, that varies according to the locality. In some cases, as in the hilly parts of Lancashire, the rills of water, if looked after with tolerable care, can be kept pure enough for all purposes, but I have seen rills absolutely spoilt by passing through farmyards, when there was no occasion for so doing. I may remark by the way, that there is generally little difficulty in leading the streams as nearly as possible to each cottage, and passing them through small filter- beds. Besides that kind of self-supplying arrangement where you have the streams, you may have recourse to rain-water as they do in Lincolnshire. On the extensive level plains in that county they-are obliged to rely almost entirely on rain-water, and to provide, as the Duke of Bedford does, an arrangement for a full rain-water supply. There are many districts where the rain-water supply is scarcely adequate, and even then, from want of care, it is so badly collected in some instances that it cannot be safely used. I am going to give you a typical in- stance of what has been done in order to meet this diffi- culty. The best instance I know of is that of Chapel Brampton, which has been arranged by Lord Spencer. If you will take the trouble to examine this plan, or the engrav- ings which I will hand round, you will see how it is done. I am thus able to show you an instance, not a theoretical one but a practical one, of how the water is supplied in certain villages.* Lord Spencer has erected a pumping engine below the village, and brings up the water supply through the whole of the village to every single tenement, exactly the same as if it was in the heart of the metropolis ; and there is a corresponding drainage system, to carry away the refuse * See all these plans in the Handbook on ‘ Village Health,’ Wood- cuts 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44.