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WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT.
The supply of water to the district by the Metropolitan Water
Board is quite satisfactory in all respects.
MILK SUPPLY.
As reported in former years very few cows are now kept in
the district.
Only 6 cowkeepers, who among them keep 50 cows, now
remain.
At the end of November Dr. Parbury, Medical Officer of
Health for Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, wrote me that a case of
Scarlet Fever had occurred in a farmhouse which supplied milk to
Leytonstone through the Dairy Supply Company, Bloomsbury.
The milk supply from this farm was stopped until the patient was
removed to Hospital and the premises disinfected. No cases of
Scarlet Fever were attributable to this incident.
Some of the difficulties encountered in the endeavour to ensure
the supply of clean milk to consumers were pointed out in last
year's Report.
Endeavour has been made by the Medical Officer of Health
as far as possible to discourage the selling of milk by the small
general dealer, but his powers in this direction are very limited.
SLAUGHTERHOUSES.
Two new slaughterhouses have been licensed. One of these
slaughterhouses had been formerly used for this purpose, but its
use had been discontinued for many years. The Medical Officer
of Health considered the premises unsuitable in view of their
proximity to dwellings and the dark and badly designed lairage.
In consideration of his Report the Public Health Committee first
refused to grant the licence, but on a further application being
made they assented.