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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,
Routine samples of water submitted for analysis were in all cases
satisfactory and no complaints were received regarding the unsatisfactory
condition of supplies, All samples, excepting samples of well
water, were submitted for analysis to the laboratory of the Metropolitan
Water Board and certificates giving the result of the analysis were
submitted to the Public Health Department,
The prompt receipt of information from the Board regarding the
proposed discontinuance of water supplies 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 one
of the ten cases referred to the Department, A further supply was
repaired at the direct request of the Inspector 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 446 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 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, During the year
twenty-eight samples of water were taken from baths, pools and sources
of supply, for bacteriological examination, all of which were reported
satisfactory,
During recent years considerable works have been carried out to
improve the facilities at the Public Baths, the most recent of these
being the improvement of the men's and women's personal baths and the
modernisation of dressing accommodation in both swimming pools,