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WATER SUPPLY - METROPOLITAN WATER BOARD
Water for human consumption is, with one exception, supplied from
the mains of the Metropolitan Water Board. With four exceptions, the
same source supplies water for purposes other than human consumption.
Samples of water submitted for analysis were in all cases satisfactory
and no complaints have been made in respect of unsatisfactory condition
of supplies. Samples for analysis are in all cases submitted to the
laboratory of the Metropolitan water Board and certificates giving the
result of the analysis are submitted to the Public Health Department.
The continued co-operation of the officers of the Board, particularly
in respect of proposals to discontinue supplying water to premises because
of defects in the supply service or the non-payment of water rate, enabled
the Public Health Inspectors to provide for continuity of supply in all
but two of the sixteen cases referred to the Department. A further eight
supplies were repaired at the direct request of the Inspectors without
requesting assistance from the Board.
WATER SUPPLY - WELLS
There are seven wells in existence in the Borough. One some
600 feet deep supplies water for both drinking and domestic purposes
to a large block of flats. Two approximately 780 feet in depth provide
water for industrial use, another 400 feet deep provides a supply for
fire-fighting purposes, the water being lifted to a large roof storage
tank. A further one of a depth of feet supplies the water to the
Council's swimming pools, and the remaining two at a depth of 600 feet are
not in use, but held in reserve for use in industrial washing.
PUBLIC BATHS
The Public Baths were opened in 1907 and comprise two swimming
pools, one 100' x 30' having a capacity of some 100,000 gallons of
water, the second pool is somewhat smaller 97' x 27' with a capacity
of 90,000 gallons and, in addition, there are 38 personal baths (27 for
men and 11 for women). The supply of water is obtained from a deep
well situated beneath the baths and the water used in the swimming pools
is treated by chlorination and continuous filtration. Thirty-three
samples of water were taken from baths, pools and sources of supply, for
bacteriological examination, all of which were reported upon as satisfactory.
During recent years considerable works have been carried out to
improve the facilities at the Public Baths including the dressing
accommodation in the large pool, baths surrounds, diving stage, precleansing
in the large pool, ladies personal baths, and the modernisation
of chlorination plant to ensure the efficient sterilisation of water
contained in the swimming pools. The boiler plant has been converted to
oil firing and new hot water calorifiers have been installed.
The modernisation of existing facilities at the Public Baths was
carried a stage further during the past year when the dressing boxes
surrounding the small swimming pool were removed and new accommodation
for both sexes was constructed in adjacent rooms. Bathers are now
allocated a locker with a numbered disc where their clothes, etc. are
locked-up whilst they are swimming, and only the Baths Attendant has