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8 Sanitary Circumstarces of the District.
Four deaths were due to Accident or Violence.
Congenital Malformations account for 4 deaths.
Syphilis accounts for 2 deaths.
Twenty-two- deaths were accounted for by Ante-natal conditions.
Four of the deaths, viz., Convulsions and Syncope, are so illdefined
as to be impossible to classify.
POOR LAW RELIEF DURING 1920.
One hundred and twenty-nine orders were issued for Medical
Attendance.
One hundred and one orders were issued for admission to Workhouse
and Infirmary.
Thirty deaths occurred among Barnes and Mortlake cases in the
Workhouse Infirmary.
Hospitals serving in this District include:—
The Royal Hospital, Richmond.
The Putney Hospital, Putney Common.
The West London Hospital, Hammersmith.
The Isolation Hospital in Mortlake provides for the Isolation of
Infectious Diseases for the Urban District, and contains 50 Beds for
Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Enteric Fever, and Tuberculosis, the
County ma,king use of some of the beds for the latter disease.
WATER.
The Water Supply is that of the Metropolitan Water Board. It
is constant, sufficient, and of good quality. Its plumbo-solvemt action
is negligible. The raw Thames water is stored to allow of sedimentation,
and then filtered. It is quite likely that Chlorine will play an
important part in the purification of future water supplies. The
system- of storing drinking water in cisterns in houses is not to be
encouraged, and, wherever possible, we get Taps off the rising Main
supplied to houses.
SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE.
The Water-carriage System prevails throughout the District, with
separate channels for storm water. The Sewage is treated at the
Richmond and Barnes Joint Sewage Works—effluent discharge into
the Thames and the sludge barged away. The Pumping Machinery
at the Works can dea.1 with 50 million gallons of water daily; a good