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WALES.
1280
(FROM
OUR
WALES. OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)
Llandudno
Water-supply,
THE reputation which has so long been held by Llandudno as a health resort is in no small measure due to the excellent manner in which the requirements of the town arc looked after by the local sanitary authority. Included in the municipal undertakings are ’,’an isolation hospital and a refuse destructor, and recent years a public slaughter-house has been established. The water-supply is obtained from two small lakes, Dulyn and Melynllyn, situated in the Snowdon district not far from Carnedd Llewellyn, a mountain peak nearly as high as Snowdon itself. It is nearly 20 years since the water was first brought to the town from these lakes, and neither the adequacy nor the quality of the supply has ever been questioned. There has now been completed an undertaking which will meet the needs of the district for many years to come. A second main has been laid at a cost of 33,000, so that it is possible to deliver daily 2,500,000 gallons. The watershed of the two lakes is not only under the control of, but it is owned by, the Llandudno council, so that the possibilities of
during
pollution are extremely remote. The House Physiciancy at the Snansea Hospital. Upon the position of house physician to the Swansea Hospital recently becoming vacant applications were invited from medical practitioners, and when the board of management came to make the appointment it was found that one of the two applicants had withdrawn and that the other was a lady. Dr. R. C. Elsworth proposed that the appointment should be again advertised and that candidates should be confined to men. He expressed the opinion that the staff should either be all men or all women. After some discussion and the rejection of other proposals the resolution One of the resident posts has already been was carried. filled by a lady, but there appears to be some difference of opinion among the honorary staff as to whether this is desirable. Lon Temperature of Cardiff Schools. At the last meeting of the School Management Committee of the Cardiff Education Committee attention was drawn to the very low temperature which prevailed in some of the public elementary schools at the time when the children tirst assembled in the morning. The schools had been supplied with charts for recording the temperatures in the class-rooms. These were taken under the supervision of the head teachers at 9 A.M., 12 noon, and 3 P.M. In his annual report the school medical officer (Dr. E. Walford) has recorded the maximum and minimum temperatures registered during the four winter months of 1908 in some of the infant schools. A perusal of this record quite justifies the complaints made of lack of heating. In the 31 schools of which particulars are given the minimum temperature, taken at 9 A.M. in January reached 400 F. in only one instance. In two schools it was 320 and in 15 schools it varied from 330 to 36°. It would be of interest to know whether the attendances were in any way affected at these particular schools in consequence of the badly warmed rooms. West Wales As,yl2cnc. At the end of the March quarter there were 676 patients in the three counties (Carmarthen, Cardigan, and Pembroke) asylum. The rate of payment for the maintenance of pauper patients has been fixed at 8s. 9d. per head weekly for the current six months.
Cardiff Water-supply. water-supply of Cardiff is obtained Brecknockshire hills, where it is impounded in The
from the two large reservoirs. Even when these works were first undertaken it was realised that it would be necessary at no very distant date to construct a third reservoir unless there came a check in the growth of the town. There seems no likelihood of that taking place, and after unsuccessful attempts at securing additional supplies of water elsewhere, including the very large quantity which has to be constantly pumped out of the Severn Tunnel springs, the city corp oration decided to promote a Bill to enable it to construct the third reservoir, which will have a capacity of
gallons. A committee of the House of Commons passed the preamble of the Bill on April 23rd, so that a serious effort will now be made to proceed with the undertaking. The population of the town is now estimated at 191,500 and the daily consumption of water per head is 28 gallons. The new works will take about six years to complete, and it is anticipated that even if the present rate of increase in the population continues the additional storage provided will insure the same amount per head daily in 30 years’ time.’ The cost of the undertaking is estimated 1075 million
at
£272, 000.
April 27th.
_________________
MANCHESTER. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ,School Blackboards. THE medical officer of health of Haslingden, Mr. F. J. Hindle, is also medical inspector of school children, and he has made a statement as to the injurious effect on the sight of the blackboard, that it is responsible in some degree for the defective sight of the pupils. He says that the almost constant use of the blackboard causes eyestrain, and that though his own vision is perfectly normal, he has had difficulty in deciphering things depicted on the blackboard where in other circumstances the deciphering should have been easy. He has noticed that scholars resort to various expedients to overcome the difficulties arising from the shiny surface of the board. He advises that the blackboard and white chalk should be replaced by white boards or slabs and black chalk or crayon, which, he thinks, would do away with difficulties of focus and of defective sight. The Gore B?’ook Again. that the work of the Mersey and Irwell joint committee-namely, the purification of our rivers-is still very far from completion. Salford, in spite of its endeavours, is at fault, for the dry weather flow of sewage in the borough is approximately 12,000,000 gallonsa day, which is about 4,000,000 gallons a day more than the present filtration beds can deal with. So the Salford Corporation is to be asked how it proposes to deal with the increase of flow of sewage. But the Gore Brook never fails to provide a subject for discussion at the meetings of the joint committee, and to bring forth some futile efforts to prevent or minimise its offensive smells. One of the last has been to sterilise the sewage effluent during dry days in the summer months. But as the chief inspector had pointed out, "there was a distinct nuisance arising from the brook in the vicinity of Birch Park" on March 21st, not usually reckoned as a summer’s day. Gorton, which has to curb the tendency of the brook to make the vilest of bad smells, says it is doing all it can and throws the blame on its advisers because they had not been sufficiently insistent in their recommendations. The present state of things is that the subcommittee of the Mersey and Irwell joint committee ’’ recommended that the clerk be instructed to inform the Gorton urban district council of the offensive condition of the stream on the date named (March 21st), and to urge it, as the sanitary authority, to take such steps as it might find necessary in order to relieve the inhabitants of its own district and of the city of Manchester of a repetition of the nuisance during the ensuing summer." But the brook heeds not legal phraseology and is no doubt prepared to surpass its former efforts in the production of vile smells. It is a curious thing that for a long series of years this dirty ditch has defied the best efforts, as they must be supposed to be, of the joint committee, the city of Manchester, and the Gorton urban district council, and, as far as present signs go, will continue to triumph over them. Corranaon lodg ing-lwuses. Some little time ago Manchester was startled by a fire at a lodging-house, where 200 or 300 people could be put up. There was some loss of life, and there seemed to be a lack of supervision over those responsible. Since then, however, action has been taken with a view of securing better safeguards against fire and panic casualties. The Local Government Board has sanctioned Manchester’s adoption of Part 5 of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act of last year, and the Watch Committee will be able by the end It would
seem
(FROM
OUR
WALES. OWN CORRESPONDENTS.)
Llandudno
Water-supply,
THE reputation which has so long been held by Llandudno as a health resort is in no small measure due to the excellent manner in which the requirements of the town arc looked after by the local sanitary authority. Included in the municipal undertakings are ’,’an isolation hospital and a refuse destructor, and recent years a public slaughter-house has been established. The water-supply is obtained from two small lakes, Dulyn and Melynllyn, situated in the Snowdon district not far from Carnedd Llewellyn, a mountain peak nearly as high as Snowdon itself. It is nearly 20 years since the water was first brought to the town from these lakes, and neither the adequacy nor the quality of the supply has ever been questioned. There has now been completed an undertaking which will meet the needs of the district for many years to come. A second main has been laid at a cost of 33,000, so that it is possible to deliver daily 2,500,000 gallons. The watershed of the two lakes is not only under the control of, but it is owned by, the Llandudno council, so that the possibilities of
during
pollution are extremely remote. The House Physiciancy at the Snansea Hospital. Upon the position of house physician to the Swansea Hospital recently becoming vacant applications were invited from medical practitioners, and when the board of management came to make the appointment it was found that one of the two applicants had withdrawn and that the other was a lady. Dr. R. C. Elsworth proposed that the appointment should be again advertised and that candidates should be confined to men. He expressed the opinion that the staff should either be all men or all women. After some discussion and the rejection of other proposals the resolution One of the resident posts has already been was carried. filled by a lady, but there appears to be some difference of opinion among the honorary staff as to whether this is desirable. Lon Temperature of Cardiff Schools. At the last meeting of the School Management Committee of the Cardiff Education Committee attention was drawn to the very low temperature which prevailed in some of the public elementary schools at the time when the children tirst assembled in the morning. The schools had been supplied with charts for recording the temperatures in the class-rooms. These were taken under the supervision of the head teachers at 9 A.M., 12 noon, and 3 P.M. In his annual report the school medical officer (Dr. E. Walford) has recorded the maximum and minimum temperatures registered during the four winter months of 1908 in some of the infant schools. A perusal of this record quite justifies the complaints made of lack of heating. In the 31 schools of which particulars are given the minimum temperature, taken at 9 A.M. in January reached 400 F. in only one instance. In two schools it was 320 and in 15 schools it varied from 330 to 36°. It would be of interest to know whether the attendances were in any way affected at these particular schools in consequence of the badly warmed rooms. West Wales As,yl2cnc. At the end of the March quarter there were 676 patients in the three counties (Carmarthen, Cardigan, and Pembroke) asylum. The rate of payment for the maintenance of pauper patients has been fixed at 8s. 9d. per head weekly for the current six months.
Cardiff Water-supply. water-supply of Cardiff is obtained Brecknockshire hills, where it is impounded in The
from the two large reservoirs. Even when these works were first undertaken it was realised that it would be necessary at no very distant date to construct a third reservoir unless there came a check in the growth of the town. There seems no likelihood of that taking place, and after unsuccessful attempts at securing additional supplies of water elsewhere, including the very large quantity which has to be constantly pumped out of the Severn Tunnel springs, the city corp oration decided to promote a Bill to enable it to construct the third reservoir, which will have a capacity of
gallons. A committee of the House of Commons passed the preamble of the Bill on April 23rd, so that a serious effort will now be made to proceed with the undertaking. The population of the town is now estimated at 191,500 and the daily consumption of water per head is 28 gallons. The new works will take about six years to complete, and it is anticipated that even if the present rate of increase in the population continues the additional storage provided will insure the same amount per head daily in 30 years’ time.’ The cost of the undertaking is estimated 1075 million
at
£272, 000.
April 27th.
_________________
MANCHESTER. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ,School Blackboards. THE medical officer of health of Haslingden, Mr. F. J. Hindle, is also medical inspector of school children, and he has made a statement as to the injurious effect on the sight of the blackboard, that it is responsible in some degree for the defective sight of the pupils. He says that the almost constant use of the blackboard causes eyestrain, and that though his own vision is perfectly normal, he has had difficulty in deciphering things depicted on the blackboard where in other circumstances the deciphering should have been easy. He has noticed that scholars resort to various expedients to overcome the difficulties arising from the shiny surface of the board. He advises that the blackboard and white chalk should be replaced by white boards or slabs and black chalk or crayon, which, he thinks, would do away with difficulties of focus and of defective sight. The Gore B?’ook Again. that the work of the Mersey and Irwell joint committee-namely, the purification of our rivers-is still very far from completion. Salford, in spite of its endeavours, is at fault, for the dry weather flow of sewage in the borough is approximately 12,000,000 gallonsa day, which is about 4,000,000 gallons a day more than the present filtration beds can deal with. So the Salford Corporation is to be asked how it proposes to deal with the increase of flow of sewage. But the Gore Brook never fails to provide a subject for discussion at the meetings of the joint committee, and to bring forth some futile efforts to prevent or minimise its offensive smells. One of the last has been to sterilise the sewage effluent during dry days in the summer months. But as the chief inspector had pointed out, "there was a distinct nuisance arising from the brook in the vicinity of Birch Park" on March 21st, not usually reckoned as a summer’s day. Gorton, which has to curb the tendency of the brook to make the vilest of bad smells, says it is doing all it can and throws the blame on its advisers because they had not been sufficiently insistent in their recommendations. The present state of things is that the subcommittee of the Mersey and Irwell joint committee ’’ recommended that the clerk be instructed to inform the Gorton urban district council of the offensive condition of the stream on the date named (March 21st), and to urge it, as the sanitary authority, to take such steps as it might find necessary in order to relieve the inhabitants of its own district and of the city of Manchester of a repetition of the nuisance during the ensuing summer." But the brook heeds not legal phraseology and is no doubt prepared to surpass its former efforts in the production of vile smells. It is a curious thing that for a long series of years this dirty ditch has defied the best efforts, as they must be supposed to be, of the joint committee, the city of Manchester, and the Gorton urban district council, and, as far as present signs go, will continue to triumph over them. Corranaon lodg ing-lwuses. Some little time ago Manchester was startled by a fire at a lodging-house, where 200 or 300 people could be put up. There was some loss of life, and there seemed to be a lack of supervision over those responsible. Since then, however, action has been taken with a view of securing better safeguards against fire and panic casualties. The Local Government Board has sanctioned Manchester’s adoption of Part 5 of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act of last year, and the Watch Committee will be able by the end It would
seem