[Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Worcester City.

  • Worcester (England). City Council.
Date:
1919
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Credit: [Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Worcester City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The General Infirmal*}^^l^s1 )twO'Vvar8s'Jclosed (7m, 41 empty beds) for lack of funds to k'eep'{liemopen. This i most unfortunate, and a great harcTslifpc'oii' many ivh would be greatly benefited fey earlier treatment of the: • n .1 ' , [ rh.^noigjsoac , ; < , illnesses than can under present conditions be obtained. sb ospaJ Ip auol no brm gpjby/- end lo 00 cot Water Supply.—This is taken fi;om th^ River Seven The Works are on the East bank at the North end of th • <■ -\ iJ>' ,c City. The water is pumped into tanl^s into which a portio of the sediment falls, and thence flows on to nine s^j filters, which cover an area 0^*6501 square yards. The usu rate of filtration is from 2\ to 3 inches per hour. The filtered water passes into a covered pure water tak and is pumped thence into the water mains. The supply, constant and sufficient. There are two covered reservoir one on Rainbow Hill containing 812,000 gallons, the oth on Gorse Hill 250 feet above sea level containing 250,0 gallons. These reservoirs supply the houses' in the high parts of the City, and being in connection with the lo lying mains are available in case of fire. There are water storage cisterns in the houses. & The Severn has a flow during ordinary-.weather of 4) million gallons per dav. It is liable to floods after hea rain, and the water for a few days fs turbid and contaminate : 'D£oA 3ioq/! JlTIcT Dm-, Jl by the washing out of the ditches and. small streams th: J ft* on dt s rtin I .cScTjuii 10 cinypi drain into it. The river flow, may then b.pHrwo or thi' times greater than the ordinary flow. rt; 9! dBli JjIIjcID cull 1.’! cjS'/.-1 Samples of water are tqken weekly froip t^ pure war tank and bacteriological examinations are made, the mic - . , r ib c >kiq It j mmpJ .p. ag/ec organisms per cudic centimetre and bacilli Cob per * »,% . vd b^nianq cl ogawsc onf hrm ,vE D cubic centimetres being' recorded.