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ELECTROLYTIC DISINFECTING FLUID.
Work of the Plant during the Summer Period, 1909; Stability
of Fluid; Output of Fluid; Distribution of Fluid; Cost
of Material and Electricity; Condition of Plant; Total
Quantity Manufactured since Installation of Plant and
Monetary advantage to Borough; Total Cost of Electrolytic
Fluid, Corks, Labels and Bottles, 1906-1909 (four
years); Expenditure for the Years ended 31st March,
1907, 1908, 1909, and Half Year to September 30th, 1909.
plus estimate for Half Year to March 31st, 1910, and
Estimate for Year ending March 31st, 1911; Cost of
First Plant; Installation of Second Plant, Cost, Advantages,
output and strength of Fluid; Cost of Carbolic
Disinfectants, etc., 1903, 1904, 1905; Suggested use of
Electrolytic Fluid for sprinkling the floors of the
Class Rooms of the London County Council Schools;
Swimming Baths, the use therein of the Electrolytic
Fluid.
Work of the Plant during Summer Period 1909.
At the seven depots during the Summer period the electrolytic fluid
was in great demand by the public; so great was the demand that the
entire requirements of the Works Department could not be met; no fluid
could be given out for street watering and sewer manhole flushing, but
was delivered for the street gullies. The requirements of the Institutions
of the Guardians and the Managers of the Sick Asylums were not curtailed.
To meet the public demand at the depots, overtime at the central manufacturing
depot had to be resorted to, as at the end of each day all fluid
had been distributed at the central depot. After a run of eight hours the
top supply tank was replenished, the electrolysers washed out and a fresh
start made. On some days there was an output of over 300 gallons. At
the central depot alone during the hot weather in one day as many as
eight hundred vessels of all descriptions were filled with the fluid to satisfy
the public call. The demand at the seven depots was at one time so great
that the depots had to be supplied with fluid on two occasions during the
week in place of the usual once.