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Housing.
A number of re-housing applications were dealt with by having such premises inspected
and the prescribed form forwarded to the London County Council.
The number of applications referred by the borough to the London County Council for
information as to overcrowding was 509, and 76 on account of tuberculosis in the family.
Water.
The bulk of the water supply in the borough is provided by the Metropolitan Water
Board, and has been satisfactory in quality and quantity.
The Water Act, 1945, makes provision for the conservation and proper use of water
resources and supplies. Local authorities and statutory water undertakers may be required
to carry out surveys of the existing consumption, the demand for water supplies and of the
water resources in, or available for, their area. They may also be asked to prepare an estimate
of their future requirements and to formulate proposals to meet them.
Regulations known as the Water Abstraction Regulations, 1947, have been made under
Section 6 of the main Act and require any person who abstracts water from an underground
source to keep records if the plant is capable of yielding at least 20,000 or 50,000 gallons of water
per day, the figure depending on the part of the country where the well is situated.
The records must give the following information:—
(i) The quantity of water abstracted each day;
(ii) The rest and the level after pumping (i.e., the pumping level) at some time in
the month of October in each year;
(iii) Certified copies of the analyses of the water.
These records are to be maintained over a period of five years.
In addition to the well, which is available if necessary to augment the water supply
to the Council's swimming bath at Prince of Wales Road, there are four commercial concerns
in the borough which draw their water supply from wells situated on their own premises.
These firms have been notified of their responsibility in keeping records as required by the
Water Abstraction Regulations, 1947.