[Report 1901] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight R.D.C.

  • Isle of Wight (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1901
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Credit: [Report 1901] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it seems scarcely worth while to cavil about a penny more or less, but the whole subject points to the necessity of the community purchasing the water for its needs from the land owner out and out ; and of an alteration in the law which would enable sanitary authorities to obtain water for their public supplies by provisional order, as they obtain land. Staplers from the Newport boundary has clay at the staplers surface, but as you ascend the hill, the gravel which ^rib- caps it begins to appear. This is of no great depth, and the wells sunk in it soon give out in dry weather. Although the water will not rise to the most elevated positions from the Alvington down reservoir, the majority of the houses could be supplied from that source, and the time would seem to have arrived for definite action in the matter. In obedience to your pledge, you arranged to supply Northwood Gurnard with water, and the pipes were laid before ^pp1?* the Corporation were ready to supply it. Not only will Gurnard have water, but a greater part of the waterless parish of Northwood, you having resolved to extend the main at Hew street. Thus lias been met in a complete manner, a want which lias occupied the attention of the sanitary authority and the parish, for more than a generation. The cost of the supply will prove to be a splendid investment. Great credit is due to the representatives of the parish for the careful attention they have unselfishly given to this beneficent work.