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Water Supply.
The usually quarterly samples were taken
during the year from the mains of the Lambeth
and of the Southwark ahd Vauxhall Water Companies.
A prominent feature in the work of the Public Health Department
is the largely increased number of special inspections
made by the Chief Sanitary Inspector, and the District Sanitary
Inspectors, the results of which are reported to the Health
Committee at the next subsequent meeting. In order to facilitate
reference to the minutes if necessary the dates upon which
such reports have been made during the year 1897 are appended.
January 5th.—At this meeting a report was submitted with
reference to the condition of the drainage of the Latchmere Street
Board School, as to its generally defective condition, which is
quoted in my last Annual Report; that the London School Board,
who had been served with notice, had requested that the matter
might stand in abeyance for a time, that plans were subsequently
submitted to the Health Committeefor the remodelling of the
system of drainage, and that the works, which are of an extensive
character, are, at the time of writing completed.
In connection with the drainage of the large schools in the
parish, it may be stated that nearly all of them have been
redrained since the Public Health (London) Act came into
operation, and consequently they are now in a satisfactory
condition in that respect.
January 19th.—At this meeting an exhaustive report was
submitted relative to the drainage, water closets, and other
sanitary conveniences in connection with the Wandsworth and
Clapham Union Infirmary, St. John's Hill, and in respect of which
a preliminary report had been furnished by the Chief Inspector at
the meeting of the Health Committee on the 15th September,
1896, at which time the Committee gave him instructions to make a
fuller examination of the general sanitary condition of the
Infirmary, and report to them thereon.