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for disinfecting clothing, nnd thnt any inhabitant of the district
may have bedding, clothes, &c. disinfected free of cost by
applying to the Inspector at the Boanl Room. No. 3, Emerson
Street, Bankside. The deaths in Christehurch Workhouse
amounted to 76 as against 99 in the previous year, whilst the
deaths from epidemics in that Institution were exactly the same,
viz., 2 from Diarrhoea.
I have made analytical and microscopical examinations of the
water supplied during last year, and reported as to its character;
further, I would add Frofcssor Frankland's testimony, who in his
Report says, that—
" The mean temperature of the water supplied by the Southwark
Company during 1872 was 13.3, and that of Lambeth 12.5. In
100,000 parts of the water supplied from the above sources, I find
the mean weight of total solid impurity to be in the Southwark
Company 26.91, and that of Lambeth 27.53 ; in organic carbon, .259
and .281 respectively; in organic nitrogen, Southwark .039, and
Lambeth .043. Ammonia was detected in the proportion of .001
both in the Southwark and Lambeth supply ; the mean amount
of previous sewage or animal contamination is estimated in the
water supplied by the Southwark Company at 1,637, and in that of
Lambeth at 1,882. Taking the water supplied by the Kent Company
as a standanl (which enjoys the enviable distinction of being comparatively
free from the presence of organic matters), the mean
proportional amount of organic elements were found to be in the
Southwark Company's water—compared with the six other sources of
supply to the metropolis for the whole year—5.9, and that of Lambeth
6.6. This comparison is most unfavourable as reganls the character
of the quality of the water delivered by the Lambeth Company's
mains, the amount of organic contamination being more than double
in proportion than that supplied by the New River Company. 1 find,
also, that the removal of the intake of the Lambeth Company from
Thames Ditton to a position between Hampton and Sunbury has
hitherto been attended with no improvement in the quality of the
water supplied; the inefficiency of its filtration has caused its
turbidity to be in no degree diminished, while microscopic examination
of matters in suspension has detected living and moving