Report of the Health Officer, Corporation of Madras Health Department.

  • Madras (India). Health Department.
Date:
[1920]
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Credit: Report of the Health Officer, Corporation of Madras Health Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stage is over, when, lie will be placed under the direct charge of the Health Officer. The insufficiency of water-supply to the paracherries and hutting grounds in the city leading to the troublesome and unwholesome necessity of storing water in small quantities and in dirty receptacles has long been recognised as a menace to the public health. Landlords always ishirk to provide such cherrieg and hutting grounds with sufficient number of water taps. The poverty of the people also prevents them from providing themselves with necessary taps. In the current year, strenuous efforts are made by the Corporation to provide cherries and hutting grounds with the required number of taps and thereby to secure free and gratuitous supply to areas where there is water scarcity. Drainage-Public and Private.—The provisions of Sections 176 to 186 of the Municipal Act were for the most part carried out by the Works and Special Works Departments in conjunction with the Health Department. During the year under report, the drainage of the following areas was completed:— 1. A 6-inch sewer with house connections in Muthuknshna Iyer street was laid at a cost of Rs. 1,553. 2. The sewer in Aslam Bee Street, Meersahibpet was extended and connected with the manhole in Angamuthu Naick Street at a cost of Rs. 850. 3. A masonry drain was' constructed connecting the drainage of the houses in the northern portion of Rundall’s Road with the drain in Hunter’s Road- 4. A new side drain, around Ammen Covil, in Post Office street, 7th Division, was constructed. 5. The construction of a new side drain in Dharmaraja Oovil lane in the 17th Division, was completed. 6. A sewage dumping pit was constructed in front of lascars lines, Vepery High Road, 19th Division. 7. The big open side drains on either side of Triplicar.e High Road were divested of all sewage and were made to serve as sheer storm water drains and were put in proper order and covered with cuddappah slabs with openings at sufficient intervals. 8. A new drain was also constructed in Strahan’s Road, 17th Division. During the year, in addition to the above drainage works, portions of the 9th, 10th and 12th Divisions were also rewered. Many of the open side drains are in a broken condition, repairs to which are withheld in anticipation of the introduction of sewers. While such a course is no doubt justifiable from an economic point of view, in areas where sewering is to be taken up immediately 3