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WATER SUPPLY.
The water supply of the District was, as in previous years,
provided by the Sutton District Water Company and the East
Surrey Water Company, with a private supply supplementing, as
necessary, at Cane Hill Hospital.
Routine samples of the treated water in public supply were
submitted quarterly for bacteriological and chemical examination.
In addition, two samples were obtained for bacteriological examination
only from the private supply at Cane Hill Hospital, making
18 samples in all.
In addition, both the Water Companies and the Local
Authorities sharing these public supplies provided the Department
with copies of the reports on the samples taken by them.
No complaints were received during the year with regard to
the quality or quantity of water supplied by the Companies,
and no unsatisfactory reports were received on the samples taken
from the supplies to the District.
The Cane Hill Hospital Management Committee has made
arrangements with the Public Health Department of the London
County Council for routine sampling and supervision of the water
supply from the relatively shallow well in their grounds, which
is used exclusively by this Hospital. Adequate chlorination is
essential and steps have been taken to ensure this and to effect
closer co-operation between the officers of the three authorities
interested in the standard of this supply.
The results of two chemical and two bacteriological examinations
of the water in public supply are given below and these are
fairly typical of the reports received:—