[Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Woking U.D.C.

  • Woking (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1914
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Credit: [Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Woking U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    private reservoir in another district in the case of five dwellings; three wells were cleansed out and in iour instances work was in hand at the end of the year in connection with the laying on of water from the Company s mains. Drainage and Sewerage. The Council instructed Mr. Midgeley Taylor to prepare plans for the additional purification works at the harm on the lines decided upon at the end of the previous year and a Local Government Board Enquiry was held in July into the Council’s application to borrow £18,600 to carry oat the proposed works. These include the provision of three additional sedimentation tanks and sixteen circular sprinkler beds of 75 feet diameter and three feet average depth, the effluent from the beds after sedimentation in humus tanks will he treated on the land which is now being levelled and underdrained where necessary. The sludge from the first sedimentation tanks will he mixed with lime and pressed as heretofore. When these works are completed there should he no difficulty in turning into the river effluents satisfactory to tlie Thames Conservancy. Four samples of final land effluent and thirteen samples of sewage before and after passage through the experimental filter bed were sent to me by the Surveyor for analysis. The effluent from the experimental bed maintained a highly satisfactory standard. Some of the land effluents were of an indifferent quality. The sewerage of certain populous parts of the Sutton and Bridley ward was further considered by the Council and an inspection of the ward was made in November by the Drainage Committee with a view to fixing the areas to be served by the proposed drainage scheme, and the Surveyor was instructed to prepare plans embodying the Committee’s proposals.