[Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City.

  • Manchester (England). City Council. n 88637066.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It will be seen that the work done has greatly increased from 1907 up to the present time. In fact the Housing Sub-Committee now meets once a week, and the amount of business which it transacts is generally large. It will be noted that there are considerable ebbs and flows in the number of houses dealt with year by year. These represent periods of diminished zeal in the Council, and periods of renewed energy. It is to be hoped that the Council will now continue to approve of work which appears to be having a decidedly beneficial effect on the health of the population. These alterations are not the only works done for the improvement of dwellings. The so-called conservancy system of dealing with excreta, which ten years ago prevailed in Manchester, is now approaching abolition. This great work has partly been carried out under the Sanitary Superintendent, and partly under the City Surveyor, both, however, being under the control of the Sanitary Committee. The alterations effected in ten years’ time are exhibited in the following table, which also shows the conversions remaining to be carried out. It is very necessary that these should not be effected without corresponding alterations in insanitary dwellings, and the rate of alterations must now be retarded. But there needs only to make conversion complete that the associated insanitary dwellings should be dealt with. The population affected by the conversions already carried out is probably over 350,000, since it is to be remembered that many of the privies converted were used by more than one family. The conversions carried out during the last ten years are shown on the following table Return of Pail-closets and Midden Privies altered to Water-closets. N umber of Pail-closets altered to Water-closets Number of Midden Privies altered to Water-closets From April 1st, 1903, to March 31st, 1904.. 1,899 i,379 ,, 33 1904, 33 33 1905.. .. 2,222 1,691 ,, 33 1905, 33 33 1906.. .. 3,297 2,600 ,, 33 IpOb, 33 33 I907.. .. 3,746 3,662 ,, 3) 190 7, 33 33 1908.. 1,296 918 ,, 33 H MO O OO V® 33 33 I909.. I0,08l 2,844 j) 3) 1909, 33 33 1910.. 11,296 1,378 ,, 33 1910, 33 33 I9II.. .. 8,552 i,204 33 33 I911, 33 33 1912.. .. 6,970 3,180 33 33 1912, 33 33 1913.. .. 4,214 533 33 33 I9R3, 3 3 5 3 1914.. .. 1,420 78 54,993 19,467