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Water.
The Metropolitan Water Board supplies the bulk of the water in the Borough and it
has been satisfactory in quality and quantity.
In addition to the well which is available, if necessary, to augment the water supply
to the Council's swimming baths at Prince of Wales' Road, there are four factories in the
Borough drawing water from wells situated on their own premises. Records are required
to be kept by these firms by the Water Abstraction Regulations, 1947, made under the Water
Act, 1945, which makes provision for the conservation and proper use of water resources and
supplies.
Samples have been taken from these wells for chemical and bacteriological examination
and also from water pumped from wells situated outside the Borough to various
points on the railway system centred on Euston Station. These examinations have been
carried out by the Public Analyst.
Samples of water have also been taken regularly from the Council's swimming bath
at Prince of Wales' Road and also from the open-air ponds at Ken Wood and Parliament Hill
Fields and appropriate action taken where necessary.

169 inspections were made by the Council's sanitary inspectors during the year.
Public Houses.
During 1948 an attempt was made to improve the conditions under which the public
obtain and consume their liquid refreshment.
There are 238 public houses in this Borough, and during the course of their initial
survey it was found that many of them were badly in need of improvement, both from an
aesthetic and a hygienic point of view. In 33 instances only, the premises were extremely
well conducted, and no faults could be found.