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Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southward.
The Disinfecting Apparatus has been used diligently during the year, and I believe
with good effect. Any how cleanliness has been promoted thereby. It has been employed
in seventy-four cases, consisting of seven hundred and seventy-eight foul beds, mattresses,
and other articles which have been freed from pollution, and rendered wholesome. The
articles in some cases were utterly valueless, when they were destroyed.

Our water supply remains the same—intermittent. The water as regards purity, is
not what it should be, and the source from whence it is taken still remains open for discussion.
The Thames water is at present defiled by the sewage of a million of people living
on its upper banks. At a deputation the other day to the President of the Local Government
Board, Dr. Sandwith sententiously said, that, there was no chance for London obtaining
pure water until a severance was made between the "vicious circle of the water-closet, the
river, and the mouth." There are means of affording the poorer localities a continuous
supply without waste which is worthy of trial, and which will shortly be brought under
your consideration.