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The amount that is recovered now is quite a small fraction
of the total sum spent, and as it is in the interest of the
population at large that every means should be taken to
suppress infectious disease, so it is only right that the
cost of such means should be borne by the public at large,
instead of by a few individuals.
What will prove, I feel sure, very useful in the coming
year, is the shelter, which, on my suggestion, the
Authority have provided and furnished in Mitcham, to
receive families temporarily displaced from their houses
while disinfection is going on. The shelter will be ready
for occupation at the beginning of the year.
Several water-tight “excreta pails” were also
obtained on my advice, and in every case of Typhoid
Fever which has occurred in Mitcham, Merton, and
Morden, the discharges and soiled linen have been
removed in them, every other day, to the Sewage Works,
where they have been destroyed by fire. If a small
hand cart were provided, such removal could be extended
to Wallington and Beddington in future, and when it is
considered that it is by means of the discharges that
Typhoid is always spread, it will be seen how important
it is to remove this source of danger to other people.
5. WATER SUPPLIES.
The mains of several Water Companies extend
through the different parishes in the District, and from
them water is laid on to the majority of the houses. In
Addington, the Croydon Corporation supplies most of the
houses; Kenley and Purley, in Coulsdon parish, and
Sanderstead, are supplied by the Kenley and Caterham
Water Company; Beddington, Wallington, Woodman-