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These measurements were registered by the rain guage under the
observation of the Surveyor's Department, to which Department I am
indebted for this information.
No shortage of water for domestic purposes occurred during the year.
The statutory maximum limit for hardness in the water supplied
by the East Surrey, and Sutton and District Water Companies is 9
degrees, and 53 samples have been examined by the Department during
1937 to ascertain that this was not exceeded. In no case was this found
to occur, but an examination of the water supplied on the Old Coulsdon
Estate, where there is no statutory maximum in force, resulted in 25
degrees of hardness.
CLOSET ACCOMMODATION.
Public sewers are provided for the whole of the area except for the
outlying portions in which most of the houses are drained to cesspools.
The vast majority of premises are provided with water closets, but
isolated buildings in public and private recreation grounds, together
with a relatively small number of private dwellings have recourse to
other forms of sanitary accommodation.
During the year five pail closets were converted to water closets,
seven cesspools were abolished and the house drains connected to public
sewers, and at four premises (previously without proper drainage) two
new cesspools were provided.
The approximate number of each type remaining at the end of
the year were:—
Premises with water closets drained to sewers 14,463
„ „ „ „ „ „ cesspools 255
„ „ earth closets 1
„ „ pail closets 56
The total number of cesspools throughout the district is approximately
229.
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