Privvy accommodation in Bathgate

Uphall Parish Council.

The Chairman then submitted the following motion, notice of which gave last meeting:-

"That we, the parish of Uphall, request the District Committee of the County Council, in terms of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1894, to form into a special district for public health, under the Burgh Police Act, the following parts of Broxburn, namely: —Greendykes Rows, Holygate Rows, Steel’s Rows, Stewartfield, and part of Church Street; that the owners of aforesaid be ordered to provide sufficient privy and water-closet accommodation for the inhabitants thereof in the interests of the public health and the maintenance of public decency; and further, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act, we also request that washing-houses be provided for the aforesaid district where such provision exists, with the exception Church Street,”

The Chairman said be had visited most of the places named, from which he had received complaints, and found that there was great deficiency of the conveniences proposed to be supplied. Mr John Stark seconded the motion, which was unanimously agreed to.

Linlithgowshire Gazette, 6th July 1895