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Section III.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
WATER SUPPLY.
The water supply of all the houses in the district is from the
Metropolitan Water Board's waterworks; the supply is constant and
through storage cisterns. No case of waterborne disease has arisen.
The supply is ample and of satisfactory quality.
The results of the periodical chemical and bacteriological examinations
of the Board's supply are available in the Metropolitan Water
Board's Annual Report which is supplied to the Council. It has been
the practice for me to bring to the notice of the Metropolitan Water
Board the occurrence of notified cases of enteric fever, or other waterborne
diseases, where it appears that the source of the disease may have
been from drinking water. Special samples of water are taken in the
district for examination whenever there is occasion to do so.
RIVER AND STREAM POLLUTION.
Instances in which waste-pipes from lavatory basins are found
to have been wrongly connected and are discharging into the surface
water drains, and thence into the River Thames or Beverley Brook,
occur from time to time; in all such cases the waste-pipes are required
to be so altered as to discharge into the foul-water drains.
Apart from these instances no case of pollution of rivers or streams
by effluents, solid refuse or filth has come to my notice during 1938.
DRAINAGE, SEWERAGE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
The water-carriage system of sewage disposal is in use practically
throughout the whole area. The defects in connection with drainage
of occupied houses which have been discovered by the Sanitary
Inspectors, and the defective conditions remedied, will be found on
reference to Table X, on page 21.
Closet Accommodation.
There is now no privy or earth-closet in use in the district. All
the water-closets are connected up to the main sewerage system
except 6, which, being situated in low-lying positions where connection
to a sewer is impossible, drain into cess-pools. The cess-pools have
been found in a satisfactory condition ; the cleansing of them is
undertaken by the occupiers of the premises, and has been carried out
in accordance with the Bye-laws.