On This Day, 24 May 1916

Birmingham Daily Gazette

Wednesday 24 May 1916

A SUMMER BOON.

BIRMINGHAM STREETS TO BE WATERED.

Birmingham will be glad to know that its streets will be watered throughout the summer, and every effort will be made to keep the dust down.
Various Metropolitan borough councils have decided to leave the streets un-watered. With the object of ascertaining whether Birmingham would follow this example a “Gazette” representative made inquiries at the City Engineer’s office. He was assured that Birmingham would continue her policy of former years in this matter.
The danger to health where watering is not carried out is realised, as is also the necessity for watering the market streets where the food supply is exposed to all the impurities of the road. “We shall not only do our best with the limited resources at our disposal to keep the streets watered,” observed one of the chief officials, “but we are also tar-spraying as many roads as we can. This will do a great deal to minimise the dust nuisance.”