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SECTION C
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES of the AREA
1. (i) Water.
The water supply for almost the whole district is derived
from the Metropolitan Water Board. There is one house
where the supply is obtained from a well.
The supply to the area has been satisfactory both in
quantity and quality.
All but one of the houses in the district have a piped
water supply and it has not been found necessary to take
samples for bacteriological examination, to test plumbosolvency
or contamination.
Houses supplied from standpipes Nil
Houses supplied from wells 1
Two samples were obtained from the well referred to
above for chemical and bacteriological analysis.
The results were as follows:—
1. Satisfactory.— Water wholesome and suitable for
drinking and domestic purposes.
2. Unsatisfactory.— Water not of the standard desirable
for drinking and domestic purposes.
Arrangements were then made by the owner of the
premises concerned (which are in the forest area, some 700
yards from the nearest water supply main) to convey water
from the Metropolitan Water Board's main to a 100-gallon
storage tank at the house.
A sample obtained from this source was submitted foe
analysis, with the following result:
Satisfactory— Water suitable for drinking and domestic
purposes.
Further samples will be obtained during 1950.
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