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PART II.
Administration.
Water Supply.
1. The supply is now constant throughout the Borough.
A water tower has been constructed which enabled all
houses on Shooters Hill to have a constant supply from April,
1st, 1911.
Plumstead Well. In previous years I have repeatedly
called attention to the unsatisfactory condition of the water
supplied by the Plumstead Well.
Prom the December report of the Water Examiner on the
Metropolitan Water Supply, page 76, it apears that in 1910
there were 68 samples taken of the Plumstead Well for
chemical analysis. The ammoniacal nitrogen averaged
.0001, the albuminoid nitrogen .0016, the chlorine 5.68,
the total hardness 38.29, and the temporary hardness 15.25.
In all these particulars the Plumstead Well compared unfavourably
with the other Kent Wells. The chlorine found
in 1910 was slightly lower than the amount reported in
1907 when it was 6.07, but the hardness was higher
than ever, and much in excess of all the other Kent Wells.
For bacteriological examination 89 samples were taken,
and an average of 6.4 microbes per cent. were found present.
This was slightly below the average for the whole of the
Kent Wells, and compares favourably with the number of
microbes present in 1907, viz., 14.3.