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on a list kept by the Council and must make application annually
for re-entry and pay a prescribed fee.
Compliance must be made with the requirements relating to
storage, transport, labelling and containers.
Nine names were added to the list during the year and
fourteen were removed. At the end of the year the names of 113
persons were entered on the poisons list involving some 177
premises.
One person selling poison listed on Part II of the poisons
list and whose name was not entered on the Local Authority's
list of sellers was prosecuted during the year and was fined
two pounds with two guineas costs. The offender was a market
stallholder and it should be noted that a person cannot be entered
on the list of sellers of these poisons unless he or she sells
from shop premises. A stall is not a "shop" within the meaning
of this Act.
353 visits were made during the year in connection with the
administration of this Act.
WATER SUPPLY
The domestic water supply in the whole of the Borough is
provided by the South Essex Waterworks Company and has been
satisfactory both in quantity and quality. No action has been
necessary during the year in respect of eny form of contamination.
The number of dwelling houses supplied from the mains
at the end of the year was 79,259, and the population as estimated
by the Registrar General was 251,160.
The number of houses supplied by stand pipes is quite
insignificant.
The fluoride content of the sources of the main supply at
October, 1965 was:—
Principal sources (river derived) — 0.25 p.p.m.
Local well (Dagenham) — 0.71 p.p.m.
The Company maintain laboratory control and carry out
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