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and walls, under the supervision of the Sanitary
Inspectors. This applies to all cases of Infectious
Disease, and in the event of cases of Phthisis or Cancer
occurring, on request, the rooms, as well as the bedding,
clothing, etc , are from time to time disinfected.
During the year 4.28 houses and 9,690 articles were
disinfected.
The Council places at the disposal of all medical
practitioners, free of charge, means of having the
diagnosis of all cases of infectious or contagious disease
confirmed or otherwise by bacteriological examination,
and also, at the end of the illness, for determining
whether the patient is free from the specific bacterium
or not. During the year 963 such examinations have
been made.
While with regard to Diphtheria it is the custom to
consider each case infective until the bacteriological
examination shows the throat to be free from the true or
pseudo-diphtheritic bacillus.
V.—GENERAL.
Water Courses.—The condition of all the water
courses is kept under the constant supervision of your
officers.
Water Supply.
The whole of the eight parishes comprising the
district, with the exception of a few cottages, is supplied
with a constant service of water. The Metropolitan
Water Board supplies the parish of Mitcham; the Sutton
Water Company supplies the parishes of Beddington and
Woodmansterne and the hamlet of Wallington; the East