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You have, further, advertised and received tenders for the laying
of house service branches, and appointed a contractor to lay such branches;
and you have decided that only tin-lined lead pipes be used for service
branches.
Certificates of sufficient water supply have been applied for and
granted to the owners of six (6) houses in Coppull, live (5) in Wheelton, two
(2) in Heskin, and one (1) each in Mawdesley and Clayton-le-Woods.
I wish again to draw the attention of all owners of newly-erected
dwelling-houses to the duty imposed upon them by Section 6 of the Public
Health (Water) Act, 1878, of applying to your Council for a Certificate of
sufficient water supply before permitting the houses to be inhabited. There
have been several cases in which houses have been occupied weeks before
Certificates have been applied for. I would like to suggest to your Council
that, in townships where there is a public water supply provided by you,
and where the connection of the newly-erected house to the water main has
been made, you should empower your Surveyor automatically to give the
necessary permission to occupy on account of sufficient water supply at
the same time as he gives a Certificate of compliance with the building
requirements.
You have decided that in the case of cattle-keepers, all farmers using
the water from your various Waterworks, should be required either to pay
scale charges for the cattle, or to receive water through meter with a
minimum cost, and further that all clubs, etc., be charged for the amount
of water consumed by meter.
House Accommodation.—Plans have been laid before you, and have
received your approval, for the erection of ninety-eight (98) houses, viz,
sixty-two. (62) houses in Coppull, eight (8) in Heapey, and four (4) in
Wheelton; and as regards drainage, for nine (9) in Eccleston, five (5) in
Heskin, three (3) in Heath Charnock, two (2) each in Anderton, Mawdesley,
and Charnock Richard, and one (1) in Bretherton.
You have also passed plans for a spinning mill, a weaving shed, and
extension to another ; a slaughter-house, and several shippons, etc.
The building of so many houses in Coppull is relieving the previously
somewhat overcrowded condition of that township.
As a rule in your District the house accommodation is good, and
there are only a few houses that are in an unsatisfactory condition.
No action has been taken by your Council under the Housing of the
Working Class Act, and at present I do not see the need of any action being
taken in your District.
Scavenging.—At the beginning of 1907 only two townships, viz,
Coppull and Euxton, were scavenged at the public expense. I am triad to
say that during the year you have added five townships to that list, viz.,
Anderton, Heath Charnock, Whittle, Clayton, and Wheelton.
Contracts have been entered into by you with men in each of these
townships, to regularly and effectually empty all privies, bogholes, and
ashpits, and to remove all household refuse from the premises.