London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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| No. | Name of town or district. | Nature of installation. | Number of beds. | Distinctive number or name of each bed. | Average or working area of the beds. | Measurement of the beds. | Depth of the beds. | Material and size of the material of which the beds are composed. | Thickness of each layer of material, arranged in their order in the beds, from the top downwards. | Method of under-draining the beds. | Actual or estimated cost of making the beds. | Actual or estimated cost per acre of making the beds. | Cost of treating sewage per million gallons. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At top. | At bottom. | |||||||||||||||||
| P.—Permanent. T.—Temporary. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Square feet. | Feet. | Feet. | Feet. | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | S. | d. | s. | d. | ||||||||||||||
| Burnley— Duck pits (septic tanks) and Woodend works (beds) | p. | * l p | 30,927 | Furnace clinker above ½ inch mesh Coarse clinker | 9 inches at bottom | Socketed 12 inch earthenware pipes and 4 inch field tiles | 1,200 | – | – | |||||||||
| 2 P | 31,363 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3P | 27,878 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 P | 28,134 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 P | 28,314 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 P | 54,540 | |||||||||||||||||
| 11 P | ||||||||||||||||||
| 14 S | 26,136 | Furnace clinker ½ inch to ½ inch mesh | 9 inches at bot-tom | |||||||||||||||
| 16 S | 27,442 | Coarse clinker | ||||||||||||||||
| 17 S | 27,178 | |||||||||||||||||
| 18 P | 21,780 | 3 | Engine ashes | |||||||||||||||
| 19 S | 21,780 | * 3 | Coke screened to 1½ inch mesh | |||||||||||||||
| 22 S | 20,909 | Engine ashes 1/8 inch to ½ inch mesh | ||||||||||||||||
| 23 S | 20,909 | Engine ashes J inch to ½ inch mesh | ||||||||||||||||
| Altham works (septic tanks and beds) | 1 P | 5,227 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 P | 13,068 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 P | 12,632 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 P | 12,632 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 S | 4,792 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 S | 13,504 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 S | 12,632 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 S | 12,632 | |||||||||||||||||
* In this column, p indicates a Primary bed, S indicates a Secondary bed.