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PART II.—ADMINISTRATION.
Water Supply.
1. The constant supply of water by the Rent and East
London Companies (now the Metropolitan Water Board) continued
as in previous years. The upper part of Shooters'
Hill has still only an intermittent supply. No complaints
were received (otherwise than from the water officials) as to
water being turned off by the water authority.
Only two houses have been found not to be supplied with
water from the above two sources. These are isolated
cottages supplied with wells—one in Plumstead and one in
Eltham.
2. The question of the sufficiency of the water supply in
tenement houses of several floors has engaged my attention for
some years, and in December I reported that, in my opinion, a
house (No. 1, High Street), occupied by three families, on
three floors, which had one tap in the yard, had not a proper
and sufficient water supply. On that report your Health Committee
determined to take proceedings, with the result that the
owner was ordered to provide a tap and sink on each floor.
As this is the first Magisterial decision of the kind, a full
report is appended. (See Appendix II.)
3. Defective and foul drinking-water cisterns were found
and remedied in 90 houses, compared with 70 in 1903. At 65
houses the supply was found insufficient or temporarily cut off.