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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1897
Annual report from the chairman of the health committee on the business of the department
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Microbe Determinations in West Middlesex Company's Water—
Microbes per c.c.
Thames at Hampton 16,136
,, after Storage 1,788
„ „ Filteration 58
New River Company, 1897.
Amount of Storage 4.7 days.
Average thickness of Sand on filters 1.9 foot.
Average rate of Alteration per square foot per
hour 2.75 gallons.
Maximum percentage of Microbes removed 100.00
Minimum „ „ „ 95.61
Average „ ,, „ 99.09
Microbe Determinations in New River Water—
Microbes per o.c.
New River Cut before entering subsidence reservoirs 5,993
„ after leaving „ „ 3,928
„ „ filteration—General Well 66
DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE.
Combined Brains.—The question of combined drains laid without order, sanction'
or approval, still remains unsettled. In the Annual Report for 1895 was quoted
the Bill proposed by the Conference of London Sanitary Authorities to be introduced
into Parliament, and supported by the London County Council, to amend the
definition of "drain" and "sewer." Exception was taken to this Bill on the ground
that it was inequitable to regard as drains combined drains constructed in places
where no sewers existed, rather than as sewers. Consequently an amended Bill
has been drafted by the Conference of Sanitary Authorities to provide for this
objection, has been approved by your Vestry, and presented to the London County
Council.
Metropolitan Sewers and Drains Bill.
Memorandum.
The Public Health (London) Act, 1891, under which the Vestries and District
Boards of the Metropolis have to act, does not contain any definition of the word
"drain," and the old definition in the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, is found
to be defective and has led to conflicting decisions; this Bill, the result of a
Conference of the Local Authorities, is to remedy the defect.
A Bill to Amend the Metropolis Management Acts with respect to Sewers
and Drains.
Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice
and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:—