The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-23 00:00:00

TEI FIATS OF TEI 111W126

The business for the Local Board of Health was to
consider the state of that part of the main sewer into
which the premises of Mr. .1. Bishop and Mews. Eliot
and Co. drain, and determine if any and what amend
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meet shall be made thereto. It appeared from the
I report of the surveyor that there is no main drain
fronting these premises in High West-street, and the
sewage has been sonveyed by a drain through Messrs.
Eliot and Co.'s oellar—whieh drain projected above the
floor I—isle the pipe pulse through into the Antelope
yard. To remedy this slate or things, Kr. Jossett pro-
posed to Insert • ffibek drain from Doeskin up to Messrs.
Eliot's bank.
Dr. Aldridge said that the oollars of the pipes forming
the drain in the cellar spoken of were most imperfectly
put on; there seemed to have been no attempt made to
render them secure, and the effluvia escaping from the
Dower was most tremendous and fearful—so much so
that no person could live in the place an hour. There
was an open floor above, so that the impure pees
poisoned the plus. He hoped this was a solitary case;
if it were not, it was a moot serious thing, and It must
cause a great deal of disease. In another plass • drain
was carried under a greenhouse, and the result was that
every plant in the place was killed! It was of the
highest importance that the eollars of the drains should
he made secure against the escape of the effluvia.
Mr. Bishop said he must exonerate the surveyor
front any blame as regarded the drain in the cellar.
Dr. Aldridge said he had no intention of imputing
blame to the surveyor.
Mr. Bishop referred to the original formation of the
sewer, and said at the time there was no alternative but
to carry it through Messrs. Eliot and Co.'s cellar in the
way it was done, and the surveyor paid every attention
to it. Bat the time had now come when very naturally
the owners of the property there objected to • sewer
parting through their premises, and therefore it became
a question of laying a supplemental drain. Whether
the occupiers of the house affected would make any
claim for oompenution was a matter not at present
before the Board !—(laughter).
Alderman Halpin remarked that Dr. Aldridge said
the collar* of the pipes were very imperfectly put on;
he should like Mr. Jewett's attention directed to the
matter, as there was now new work going on, and it
was • very important ooretidaration.
Dr. Aldridge said there was a similar defect in the
drairiays at Mies J. Yeatman's thou's, but there for-
tunately the plants 'sera killed, and that led to the
I defect being discovered. or, he supposed, the inmates
of the hones would have been poisoned.
The Mayor remarked on the serious nature of these
statements, and observed that they had all coin* out
without anything from him.
Alderman Galpin mid it did not affect the question of
; houses being ounneeted with the bowel%
; The Mayor said it we med to him it did aff; ct that
; question very much, for it showed that people were
; wenw off with the drainage than before.
Mr. Steele said he had *cm° drains in the same
• state.
; The Surveyor was directed to carry oat the works
proposed for rcmelying the nuisance in High
; West-street.