Dr. S. Monckton Copeman's report to the Local Government Board on prevalence of measles, enteric fever and diphtheria in the borough of Lowestoft, and on general sanitary administration in that town / [S. Monckton Copeman].

  • Copeman, S. Monckton (Sydney Monckton), 1862-
Date:
1896
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Credit: Dr. S. Monckton Copeman's report to the Local Government Board on prevalence of measles, enteric fever and diphtheria in the borough of Lowestoft, and on general sanitary administration in that town / [S. Monckton Copeman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RECOMMENDATIONS. 1. The Town Council should, without further delay, take steps to remedy the present unsatisfactory condition of the sewer outfall works. 2. All surface wells the water of which is found to he contaminated owing to the proximity of cesspools and privy middens, should be closed and the provision of a better water supply enforced. 3. The Town Council should at once take such steps as may be necessary to ensure that, as far as possible, the quality of the public water supply shall be above suspicion. 4. More ventilating shafts should be erected along the line of the main sewers and their branches. These shafts should be carried up to open freely above any wall or building in their immediate neighbourhood, or against which they are erected. Those at present in existence should be heightened to such an extent as may be necessary to remove all risk of danger to health, and to render them capable of efficient action. 5. Arrangements should be made for the systematic flushing of the sewers, more particularly in the summer months. 6. Where orders are made for the conversion of privies into closets, the Town Council should in each instance insist on such closet being provided with suitable flushing arrangements. 7. The Town Council should consider the question of providing a “ destructor,” for the cremation of town refuse of all kinds. 8. Byelaws, based on the Board’s Model Code, should as speedily as possible be drawn up and put in force for the regulation of slaughter-houses and common lodging-houses. 9. The Town Council will do well to carry out such extension of the present Isolation Hospital as will allow of the simultaneous treatment in it of cases of more than two diseases, allowing also for separation of sexes.