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An examination of the whole system of storage and
filtration effectually disposed of this allegation; the open
ponds being used, some for storage of unfiltered water,
others for subsidence, and the remainder as filters, after
passing through which latter, the water is delivered directly
to the public by the mains, and is not subsequently
exposed to the air or light.
2. Complaint was made early in the year of the escape
of parrafin vapour from the ventilators and side drains
connected with the Bridge Road sewer.
The cause was known to be the effluent waste from the
premises of Messrs. Field, the Ozokerit makers, and upon
a previous occasion, by the advice of the Medical Officer
and Surveyor, in conjunction with Dr. Letheby, a proper
apparatus for reducing materially the nuisance complained
of was devised and constructed. This apparatus was found
to be still in good working order, the effluent water merely
requiring to be reduced in temperature, and much diluted
by the addition of cold water before running into the
sewer, when no escape of gas of an offensive character
would take place.
3. The dust and manure depot at the Brighton Company's
Wharf has received much attention during the year,
the Medical Officer having inspected it upon 24 occasions.
The occupier was summoned at the Wandsworth Police
Court, but a conviction was not obtained, the Magistrate
deciding that the sorting, sifting, &c., of ashes was a
necessary trade, and that there was no undue accumulation.
A fence has been erected to protect, in some measure,
the Water Company's ponds from pollution, but the law
does not give the necessary powers to effect an entire
removal of the offensive processes.