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The inspections as a rule showed the various premises to be in a satisfactory
sanitary condition; three notices to cleanse under Section 2 were served, and five
under the Public Health Acts ; in no case were legal proceedings necessary.
The Retail Bakehouses, 15 in number, were all found in good condition
except in one case the yard paving surrounding the bakehouse was in holes
consequently not kept clean, and notice was served to remedy the same. The only
underground bakehouse existing in the district at the end of the previous year has
now been discontinued.
Home Work.—Three lists of outworkers have been received, from makers of
wearing apparel, employing three homeworkers in the district and two residing
outside.
WATER SUPPLY.
The district is supplied with water by the Sutton District Water Company,
obtained from wells in the chalk, chemical and bacteorological examinations of
which were frequently made on behalf of the Council by the Lister Institute of Preventive
Medicine. The generally excellent reports submitted by the analysts were somewhat
unfavourable at the earlier portion of the year, pointing to some possible contamination.
A special report on this matter was made by me to the Council, showing
source of the pollution and means of remedying the same, and I am pleased to note
that recent analyses are very favourable.
In January it was determined by this Council, "having regard to my report
that the softening of the water was very desirable in the interests of the consumers,"
and "that the Water Company were seeking for powers under a new Act to construct
additional waterworks in the parish of Woodmansterne," to invite a conference of
delegates from the Epsom Rural, Croydon Rural, Carshalton Urban, and Sutton
Urban District Councils (whose districts are supplied with water by this Company),
that they might consider the desirability of requesting powers to compel the
Company to soften the water, etc.
After several meetings it was resolved by all the Authorities concerned, with
the exception of the Epsom Rural, to conjointly oppose the new Act unless certain
concessions were granted The matter was amicably arranged with the Water
Company, and the Sutton District Waterworks Act, 1903, passed, Section 7 of which
enacts that:—