Dr. R. Deane Sweeting's report to the Local Government Board upon the general sanitary circumstances and administration of the borough of Poole, with special reference to dealing with infectious diseases.

  • Sweeting, R. Deane.
Date:
[1913]
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Credit: Dr. R. Deane Sweeting's report to the Local Government Board upon the general sanitary circumstances and administration of the borough of Poole, with special reference to dealing with infectious diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In addition to tliese satisfactory detailed improvements, the town council have carried out a small housing scheme under the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, and are contem- plating a larger one under the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909. Under the former, 14 houses were demolished and five erected in their place. Street widening was effected, and one alley closed. The cost of the scheme was £350, against which £130 wa^ realised by the sale of property, leaving a deficit of £400 which was raised by loan. The new scheme under the 1909 Act, which is under consideration, is more ambitious, involving 86 houses, many of which have already been closed. An existing street is to be widened, another is to be stopped up, and a new street 300 feet long and 36 feet wide is to be made. On this improved area 63 houses are to be built to accommodate 315 people. The public thoroughfares abutting on the area at each* end are also to be widened. Details of this scheme are nearing completion, and it is expected that it will shortly be carried into effect. Another scheme, not finally completed, has been sanctioned by the Board, and loan for £3,518 has been granted. It involves 74 houses, all of which have been demolished. In their stead, 11 houses are to be built by the Poole Housing Association, and 16 others are to be erected in connection with the scheme under the 1909 Act mentioned above. Notwithstanding these past and future improvements in housing in the borough, many dwellings remain, some damp, others deficient in through ventilation. Overcrowding of persons in houses, though not common, is not entirely absent, and I met with some instances very near the dividing line of safety. On the other hand, bad and defective paving of back yards is a frequent phenomenon, and one in need of active attention. Water s%i'p]?ly.—The sources of supply recovered in Dr. Bulstrode’s report are now abandoned by virtue of the provisions of the Poole Corporation Water Act, 1906, except that the service reservoir at Broadstone and the water towers there and at Park- stone have been incorporated in the new scheme. This consists of a well and pumping station at Corfe Mullen, from which water is pumped to a service reservoir at Forest Hill. From this it flows by gravitation to new service reservoirs Lytchett and Constitution Hill, and to the existing service reservoir at Broadstone and the water tower at Parkstone. The well at Corfe Mullen was sunk through some 20 feet of tertiary beds, below which chalk was found for 173 feet to tlie bottom of the well. The pumping machinery, consisting of gas engines, well pumps, and high lift pumps, is capable of lifting 36,000 gallons an hour to Forest Hill reservoir. This holds half a million gallons, and commands the whole of the Corporation’s area of supply except a small portion of Broadstone. Lychett reservoir holds a quarter of a million gallons and receives water from a main between Forest Hill and IJjdon; it supplies the low levels of Upton and Hamworthy. The Constitution Hill reservoir, holding half a million gallons, furnishes storage for supplying the whole of the town of Poole, and most of the Lower Parkstone and Canford Cliffs. There is A 3 26764