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2. Water supply in tenement-houses. An additional tap
and sink were supplied on at least one upper floor of 18
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
in 1908, 30 houses in 1909, 3 in 1910, 2 in 1911, and 6 last
year. 26 of these houses were in the Dockyard and St. Mary's
Wards, 13 in River Ward, 24 in St. George's Ward, and 2 in
Elthani. There were three prosecutions in 1909, which were
recorded in full in the Annual Report for that year.
3. Defective and foul storage cisterns were found and
remedied at 55 houses, compared with 35, 51, and 34, in the
three preceding years. At 29 houses the supply was found
insufficient or temporarily cut off, and the necessary steps
taken for obtaining a proper supply.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
4. 490 samples were submitted to the Public Analyst,
and 13, or 2.7 per cent., were found to be adulterated, com
pared with 4.3, 2.5, 3.4, 3.3, and 4.6, in the five preceding
years, and 8.5 in the Metropolis in 1910. The very small
percentage of adulterations in the past five years is noteworthy.
45 of the samples taken were informal. 2 of these were
found to be adulterated.
5. Proceedings were taken in 8 cases, and convictions
were obtained in all.