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There have been seven new applications to sell milk, which, after
examination of the premises, were registered.
SLAUGHTER HOUSES.
All these have been inspected once a month and have been found
in a satisfactory condition.
PETROLEUM ACT.
Nine licenses have been renewed.
BAKE-HOUSES.
There have been 18 inspected.
CONVICTIONS.
One owner was proceeded against for non-compliance of the
Sanitary Notice, and was fined 40s., and ordered to abate the nuisance
complained of. The work was eventually done.
WATER SUPPLY.
As the question of the East London Water Supply has occupied
the public attention lately, it is interesting to notice the position that
Leyton is now in as regards its supply of water.
We have no constant supply, and therefore we must have storage
cisterns. This necessity has been impressed on us in the Report of
the Inspectors who held the enquiry. I have frequently mentioned in
my monthly and yearly reports that, in my opinion, a considerable
amount of disease in our neighbourhood was due to the want of care
and attention paid to storage cisterns, especially those in houses of the
poorer classes. These cisterns were mostly old-fashioned, ill-designed,
and badly-placed and provided easy access for dirt, &c. I wish now
to draw attention to that portion of the Inspector's Report where they
" advocate the provision of properly-designed cisterns
so constructed as to exclude dirt from the atmosphere, of any deposit
from the water itself; whilst, at the same time, the water in the
cistern is under the same pressure as the water in the main itself";
in other words, the cistern that would satisfy the Inspectors is " merely
a local enlargement of the water main."
I should, of course, prefer that our District should have a
constant supply of water, but, failing that, I should be glad if steps
could be taken to provide houses with improved cisterns such as
mentioned above, and, moreover, to insist upon all new houses having
such cisterns before being certified as fit for habitation.
The Inspector's Report says that there is no evidence to show
that the scarcity of water had any appreciable deleterious influence
upon the public health within the area of the company. However
this may seem when viewed from a general point of view, I am