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FACTORIES ACT, 1937:
Number of inspections 231
Notices served to remedy defects 34
Notices complied with 29
Matters notified by H.M. Inspector of Factories 6
Lists of Outworkers received 59
Outworkers' premises inspected 42
Nature of defects remedied at Factories:
Sanitary accommodation:
Unsuitable or defective 10
Improperly ventilated or unventilated 3
Want of cleanliness 7
Inadequate lighting 3
Other offences 11
WATER SUPPLY:
The Borough has a dual source of water supply:—
1. The Metropolitan Water Board supplying an area
bounded on the West by the London Midland and
Scottish Railway, on the North by a line along the
Mutton Brook to Bridge Lane and on the East by the
London North Eastern Railway. The remaining
Northern portion of the Borough is supplied by the
Colne Valley Water Company.
The Metropolitan Water Board supplies selected
Thames water which has been subjected to purification
by storage in which time it is freed of the bulk
of organisms. It is filtered through rapid and then
slow filters, attaining a degree of purity which compares
favourably with the general supplies in Great
Britain, but as a further safe-guard, terminal chlorination
is applied which ensures a first-class water in
every respect. Samples of waters and filter-beds are
examined bacteriologically, chemically and for taste
and other special purposes on every working day.