HH62/2/STIRLI/43

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TABLE II. - CENTRAL DISTRICT OF STIRLINGSHIRE.

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1 to 19. Numbers 3, 4, 5, 11, and 16 are unoccupied, and
at No. 19 the tenant was absent. All the others were
inspected, and in all of them the walls were damp, in most of
them very damp. The back walls are, as a rule, worst in this
respect. The floors are of wood, level with the soil in front of the
houses. Excepting in Nos. 17, 18, and 19 the wooden flooring is
not carried under the beds, so that there the floor simply consists
of earth. For want of coal-houses the coals are stored under the
beds in all but three or four houses, where the tenants have erected
coal-houses for themselves. Nos. 10, 12, and 15 have the plaster
of the ceiling broken, the plaster being nearly entirely off in the
case of No. 12. The ground at the back slopes down towards the
houses, and its level is more or less above the floor level, this
being worst in the houses numbered from 9 to 16. There are no
rhones on any of the houses. There is no proper ashpit nor privy
accommodation. The drainage is by means of two open stone
channels, well constructed, and at a distance of twelve feet from
the front of the houses. From the ends of the channels covered
drains cross underneath the road and enter the field opposite.
There the sewage is allowed roughly to irrigate the ground. The
water supply is obtained from a hole in the ground at the far
side of the field just mentioned. The hole is situated close to
a burn and its contents are surface and sub-soil water. The supply
was ample on the occasion of my visit, but is said to be deficient
in summer. It is stated also that sometimes the sewage from the
houses enters the water supply. The distance between the drain
opening in the field, and the place from which water is obtained, is
about 60 yards. I am of opinion that these houses are at present
unfit for human habitation."
On consideration of this report the Committee agreed to take
the necessary procedure to have the defects remedied, or, failing
this, to have the houses closed.

WATER SUPPLY
Special Water Supply Districts are four in number, with
populations as under:-
Bannockburn, -- 1930
Cambusbarron, -- 1010
Denny, -- 400
Causewayhead, -- 390
[Total] -- 3730