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For bacteriological examination 127 samples were taken,
and an average of 8.8 microbes per cub. centim. 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.
Houses with Water Supply outside the House. A report
on this subject was contained in the Annual Report for 1912.
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, 6 in 1912,
and 4 in 1913. 29 of these houses were in the Dockyard
and St. Mary's Wards, 13 in River Ward, 26 in St. George's
Ward, and 2 in Eltham. 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 33 houses, compared with 51, 34, and 55, in the
three preoeding years. At 24 houses the supply was found
insufficient br temporarily cut off, and the necessary steps
taken for obtaining a proper supply.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
4. 513 (samples were submitted to the Public Analyst,
and 29, or 5 6 per cent., were found to be adulterated,