View report page

21
SECTION C.
Sanitary Circumstances.
Water.
The Borough is freely supplied with water by the Metropolitan
Water Board. No samples of drinking water for bacteriological or
chemical tests were taken during 1953 by the Sanitary Inspectors.
Swimming Baths.
There are 4 indoor swimming baths in the Borough, 3 of which
belong to the Council all of which maintain regular chlorination of
the water. Investigations into various methods for the bacteriological
examinations of swimming baths waters and the effects of
chlorination were undertaken by Dr. E. Windle Taylor on behalf
of the Public Health Laboratory Service Water Sub-Committee in
co-operation with the department, and by courtesy of the Principal
of the Northampton Polytechnic Institute in the baths attached to it.
Some valuable findings were recorded and these were published
by the Ministry of Health in their monthly bulletin for December.
Sanitary Conditions.
The Sanitary conditions of the Borough were subject to routine
inspection and investigations were made into the circumstances
of all complaints made.
The work undertaken apart from that detailed elsewhere in
this report is summarized in the following table:—