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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Enfield 1968

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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Table: Lead Content of water from main taps in consumers' premises

Lead Content of water from main taps in consumers' premises

Lead content (mg/1 Pb)Samples of water standing in lead pipe overnightSamples of water after running the tap
Less than 0.011037
0.013157
0.02214
0.0381
0.0490
0.0550
0.0650
0.0741
0.0810
0.0930
0.1010
0.1210
0.1610
100 premises100 premises

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The above results are very satisfactory and the figures are within the limits
of the World Health Organisation European Standards for Drinking Water Quality.
This states that the upper limit for lead in running water in the supply should not
be more than 0.1 mg/1 (Pb); but where water undertakings continue to use lead
piping the concentration of lead (as Pb) should not exceed 0.3 mg/1 after 16 hours
contact with the pipes."
Information received from the Lee Valley Water Company indicates that a total
of 212 bacteriological and thirty chemical samples were taken during the period under
review and all conformed to standards of purity considered suitable for public supply.
(See Statistical Tables 31, 32 and 33).
BATHS, WASHHOUSES, BATHING PLACES, ETC.
Provisions exist under Part VIII of the Public Health Act, 1936, for the provision
and control of baths, washhouses and bathing places by local authorities.
The council provides three open-air and four covered swimming pools for the
general public, a swimming pool for the exclusive use of school children, and four
swimming pools situated within school premises.
At three of the public swimming pools 75 slipper baths are provided. Children's
paddling pools are sited at two of the pools and in a number of council parks.
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