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In January the Council decided to join the Croydon Rural District Council in the cost of obtaining
reports from Dr. Klein on the results of his bacteriological examination of the water supplied to their
respective districts by the Sutton Water Company, and in March they received his first report upon the
water, which was to the effect that the sample contained a comparatively small number of microbes, and
that none of the microbes present were harmful; but that the water contained certain bacilli and their
spores, from which he concluded that it contained "in a small degree admixture with surface microbes."
Subsequently, the Council decided to be content with the periodical reports on the water which are issued
by the Water Company, and which have proved to be satisfactory.
In January a conference of delegates from the Council and from the three other District Councils
whose districts are supplied with water from the Sutton Water Works, was held at Suttton, on the
question of the possibility of the contamination of the water supplied from these works by soakage from the
cemetery at the Banstead Lunatic Asylum, which is two miles from the Works. After considerable
discussion it was decided to recommend the District Councils to petition the Home Secretary and
the London County Council to stop the interments, and to adopt cremation, at the Asylum, and
the Councils in due course forwarded their petitions, but so far nothing has resulted from them.
9. The Sanitary Inspector's statement as to the nuisances that were dealt with, and as to other
work done during the year, will be found on the next page.
17, Spencer Park,
Wandsworth Common, S.W.
January, 1S99.
E. L. JACOB.