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(ix) Maternity and Nursing Homes.
1. Maternity Home at 197, Park Road. Six beds.
Kept by Miss Rowan.
2. Nursing Home at 24, Albany Park Road. Twelve
beds. Kept by Miss Roe. This Home accommodates
chronic and senile patients.
Under the Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1927,
powers of inspection (but not of registration) are delegated
by the Surrey County Council to the Corporation.
Under this arrangement the above Maternity and
Nursing Homes have been visited by me from time to time
during the year.
SECTION C.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
(i) Water.
The Water Supply of the town is furnished by the
Metropolitan Water Board.
There are still some shallow wells, and the policy is
to advise owners to have their property connected to the
Main Supply of the Metropolitan Water Board.
The use of well water was discontinued at 3 houses
during the year.
The number of premises known to be supplied with
water from wells at the end of 1934 was 35, which compares
with 271 in 1919.
Samples were chemically examined by Mr. P. G. Lloyd
during the year.
Suspicious waters are sent to the Clinical Research
Association for bacteriological examination.
(ii) Drainage and Sewerage.
In June, works were completed to take the sewage from
the Ham and Park Road areas to the Corporation Sewage
Works.