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tenement-house. Under this Act an additional supply was
required and provided at 25 houses in 1908, and at 30 houses
in 1909. 16 of these houses were in the Dockyard or St.
Mary's Wards, 13 in Eiver Ward, and 22 in St. George's Ward.
There were three prosecutions which deserve recording in full.
Notice to provide sufficient water supply for the use of the
occupants of the upper floors of three tenement-houses not
having been complied with, proceedings were taken by the
Woolwich Borough Council at the Police Court. Two cases
were heard by Mr. Gill on the 11th October, 1909, and one
case by Mr. Hutton on the 20th.
The two cases heard by Mr. Gill were very similar. The
houses consisted of six rooms on three floors, the washhouse,
where the water supply originally was situated, being two
steps below the basement. In both houses the families living
in the house had joint use of the washhouse. One—No. 8—
was occupied as follows:—one family occupied the ground
floor front room and first floor front room; another family the
basement back room, first floor back, and front floor backThe
basement front was closed as unfit for occupation. In
the other—No. 9—one family occupied the first floor, and
another family the basement and ground floor. The
upper flight of stairs consisted of 15 steps and the lower
of 14. As a result of the notice, a water-tap and sink
were fixed in each house in the passage on the ground
(or middle) floor, but no waste-pipe was provided; and a
control stop-cock was fixed in the basement washhouse
on the branch water-pipe supplying the new tap. It was
proved in evidence that, as the result of some seven inspections
made by two inspectors and the Medical Officer of Health,
at intervals in the three months succeeding the tap being
provided, the water was found turned off at the control cock