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The Babies' Help Committee of the Croydon Mothers' and
Infants' Welfare Association is specially concerned in dealing with
individual cases of unmarried mothers and their children.
(F) Ambulance Facilities for Infectious. Cases.—Two motor
ambulances are provided for the removal of infectious cases from
the area of the County Borough and from that of Penge Urban
District.
WATER SUPPLY.
I am indebted to the Borough Engineer for the following
statement as to the water supplies, rivers and streams, and sewerage
of the Borough:—
The water resources of the Corporation are as follows: Five
Pumping Stations drawing water from the chalk (four in the
Borough and one in the Parish of Addington), together with a
supply of 500 million gallons per annum in bulk from the Metropolitan
Water Board for the supply of the northern part of the
Borough being about one-fifth of the whole supply to the Borough.
All supplies are distributed by the Corporation.
The total resources at low springs are:—
From the Croydon Wells 6,150,000 galls. per day.
From the Metropolitan
Water Board 1,670,000 do.
Total 7,820,000 do.
The consumption of water in 1925 was 2,499,855,649 gallons,
equal to an average of 6,848,920 gallons per day.
The water supply is constant. All houses are supplied internally,
excepting that in about 40 cases they are supplied by means
of standpipes.
The Surrey Street Wells were established in 1851 and comprises
four bored wells syphoned together and lined with watertight
tubes to a minimum depth of 50-ft., below which they are
bored. The yield at these works is 2¼ million gallons daily on the
average.
The Addington Well was established in 1888 and comprises
a well 205-ft. deep lined with brickwork to a depth of 70-ft., with
headings 6-ft. by 4½ft. chiefly about 150-ft. from the top, 813 yards
in length and holding, with the lower part of the well, 502,000
gallons. In 1910 slow sand filters were brought into use for