HH62/2/STIRLI/85

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A Committee has at present under consideration the question of
introducing a systematic supply of water into the already formed
Special District.
Torrance of Campsie. - The chief source is a pump on the road-
side at the head of the village. It is said to give an abundant
supply even in summer. Near the lower end of the village is a
public dip well, to which access is got by a stone stair leading
down to the surface of the water. Close to the well is a drinking
trough for cattle, and the ground around is very foul, the water
being very liable to pollution. Some of the private dip wells are
very close to the dwelling-houses.

DRAINAGE.

There is only one Special Drainage District - that of Lennox-
town. It is not quite coterminous with the Water District, as it
does not include Haughhead. The drainage system consists of a
main sewer carried along the principal street, and receiving branch
drains (the road drains mainly) from cross streets on the northern
side. The main sewer enters the Glazert at the lower end of the
town. The sewage is not treated in any way. The sewer is a
12-inch jointed and glazed earthernware pipe. On the south side
the cross streets are at a lower level, and are drained into the
Lennoxtown Burn which falls into the Glazert. This burn
receives perhaps one-half of the drainage of the village. It was
very foul last summer, and had to be cleaned out at the expense
of the Local Authority. In a great many cases in the older houses
the private drains which communicate with the main drain are
very defective. There are many untrapped gratings, and many
untrapped slop boxes. A number of houses are unprovided with
drains, slop water being emptied into the road channels. These
are in some places in bad repair, and without a proper fall, so that
the slop water stagnates and creates a nuisance.
In all the other villages of the District there is no special
drainage system, each owner having been left to make his own
arrangements. The usual course is to have a covered channel,
often an old stone-built drain, leading from the house to the
existing road water drain or otherwise as circumstances may have
indicated. The general cleanliness of the inhabitants of most of

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the villages serves to reduce considerably the nuisance which would
naturally result from the want of systematic drainage.
In Drymen the occurrence of two cases of enteric fever in
adjoining houses called attention to the condition of the house
drainage. In the house where the second case occurred there was
a water-closet of the old pan type, but the receiver was wanting,
and left a direct communication with the drain into which had been
emptied the excreta from the first case. This has, of course, been
rectified.
In Drymen generally, slop water is emptied into the road gratings.
Balfron is built on the face of a hill, and there is good
natural drainage. Most of the houses have covered drains con-
nected with the road drain which discharges into the Endrick.
In Fintry there is no regular drainage.
In Killearn the road drain has a good slope, and enters a burn
at the lower end of the village. The private drains are connected
with the road drain.
Blanefield and Netherton also stand on the face of a rising
ground. A glazed and jointed fireclay pipe receives slop water
from the houses by means of slop stones in front of them. The
drain enters the Blane.
Edinkiln. - The houses drain directly into the Blane by covered
pipes.
Haughhead has no regular system.
Torrance of Campsie. - The village stands high, and on sloping
ground. Two open channels on the sides of the main street end,
the one in a field which is irregularly irrigated by the contents of
the channel, and the other in a rough trench behind the hedge on
the left side of the road. The trench leads in the direction of a
burn which joins the Kelvin. But the sewage stagnates in the
field, and very little of it reaches the burn, the trench being
filled with rank vegetation. Many of the houses in Torrance
have wooden slop boxes on the stairheads, led by wooden pipes
into drains connected with the road channels. These boxes and
pipes are untrapped. Mr. Lamb has served notices on the owners.
Milton of Campsie. - There is no proper system. The existing
provision consists for the most part of old square-built rubble
drains, leading into the present road drains, or discharging into
the Glazert where convenient.

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