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contiguous mains in the road. As the year closed, the Sanitary
Authority were about to connect the houses with the water
mains, in default of the owner.
The other case has been previously referred to in the annual
report for 1893, page 24. The Sanitary Authority, in consequence
of reports made to them, requested the East Surrey
Water Company to extend their mains for the benefit of several
houses at Coulsdon Common, supplied by rain water. Upon
this request being complied with, a notice was duly served upon
the owner to connect the houses with the extended main.
After some delay the necessary pipes were laid, and fittings
and taps supplied in the various houses, but as soon as the water
was turned on from the main, it was turned off by order of the
owner.
This proceeding was reported to the Council at its first
meeting, and the owner was called upon to comply with the
notice, but at the close of the year, the occupiers of these houses
were still consuming rain-water, which is stored in underground
tanks, is possessed of distinct odour and taste, always thick, and
very thick when disturbed by a shower of rain, and, moreover, in
which are animalculse, visible to the naked eye.
VI.—SEWERAGE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
The questions of improving the sewerage of the parishes of
Beddington, Wallington, Mitcham, Merton, and Morden, and of
remedying the defects at the Sewage Works have been burning
questions throughout the year 1894, and have been at almost
every meeting under consideration in some form or other.
Early in the year, Mr. Chatterton, who had been requested
to advise the Sanitary Authority, presented bis report, and,
briefly stated, he recommended that alterations should be made
at the works, so that chemical precipitation might be employed
as a preliminary treatment of the sewage, before final treatment
on the land or on artificial filters. He further recommended