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The supply is constant throughout the Borough, with the
exception of houses on Shooter's Hill (including Eglinton Road
above Genesta Road, Brent Road, Dallin Road, and all houses
above Red Lion Lane), which have an intermittent water
supply. In these pumping provides a supply from 6 a.m. to 1
or 2 p.m., and from 4 to 6 p.m.
2. Water Supply in Tenement Houses. An additional tap
and sink were supplied on at least one upper floor of eighteen
tenement houses, under the Public Health (London) Act, Sec.
48, previously to the coming into force of the London County
Council (General Powers) Act, 1907, by which a suitable water
supply can be required on each separately occupied floor of a
tenement-house. Under this Act an additional supply was
required and provided at 25 houses during the past year.
11 of these houses were in the Dockyard or St. Mary's Wards,
and 10 in the River Ward.
3. Defective and foul storage cisterns were found and
remedied at 67 houses, compared with 106, 51, and 77, in the
three preceding years. At 40 houses the supply was found insufficient
or temporarily cut off.
Food and Drugs act.
4. 521 samples were submitted to the Public Analyst, and
13 or 2.5 per cent, were found to be adulterated, compared
with 5.7, 8.4, 7.4, 9.3 and 4.3, in the five preceding years. The
very small percentage of adulterations is remarkable.
5. Proceedings were ordered in seven cases. Sis convictions
were obtained, and one case is still undecided.