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Your Sub-Committee visited the disinfecting shed at Homerton Bridge, and
made a thorough examination of the building, disinfector, and appliances in
connection therewith, the disinfector being packed with clothing and bedding
at the time.
Your Sub-Committee are of opinion that the disinfecting apparatus and
the building are thoroughly and dangerously inefficient for the requirements of
the District, and they therefore recommend that immediate active measures be
taken to remedy the same.
(Signed) C. T. MATTHEW, Chairman.
H. HULLAND.
E. A. GIBSON.
The Sanitary Committee, on receiving and considering this
report of its Sub-Committee, resolved to recommend the Board of
Works to purchase a Steam Disinfecting Apparatus, and to erect a
more suitable building as a disinfecting station, in place of the
present apparatus and shed.
The Board of Works approved of and adopted the recommendations
of its Sanitary Committee, and voted the necessary
funds to carry out the work, also giving instructions that this work
should be proceeded with. I am pleased to say that the apparatus
has been ordered, and the building will soon be in course of erection.
RIVER LEA.
During the year 1892, I made repeated analyses of the water
of this river. In each case the analysis showed that the water of
the river was receiving from some source or sources, a great deal
of pollution. I caused an inspection to be made of its banks, with
a view of ascertaining the origin of these pollutions, and found
that several houses on the Hackney Marshes drained into the
stream. These drains have been cut off, but still no material
difference has been made in the purity of the water. It appears
however, that in addition, the River Lea receives in the Hackney
District the effluents from two sewage farms, viz. :—Levton and