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Bacteriological
Number of Colonies
developing 1 day at 37° C. 2 days at 37° C. 3 days at 20° C.
on Agar 75 per ml. 80 per ml. 22 per ml.
Present in Absent from Probable number
Presumptive
aerogcnes Reaction — 100 ml. 0 per 100 ml.
Bact. coli. (Type 1) — 100 ml. 0 per 100 ml.
C1. welchii Reaction — 100ml.
The water supplied had no plumbo-solvent action but
samples were tested for presence of metals.
No action was required in respect of contamination of
the water. All water was chlorinated before distribution and
all new and repaired mains were chlorinated before being
restored to use.
With the exception of two condemned but occupied
cottages, all the houses in the area were supplied from the
public water mains.
CHIEF PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTOR'S REPORT
Housing—Demolition and Closure
Action within the framework of the Council's programme
for dealing with unfit houses was continued, details
of which are given below.
Towards the end of the year the Council declared a group
of 29 houses in Fern Grove, Feltham, to be a clearance area.
Appeals were lodged against ten demolition orders made
upon the owner's failure to carry out an undertaking which
he had previously given. The appeals were not determined
during the year but subsequently the hearing of the appeals
was adjourned upon the owner giving a new undertaking.
Appeals against eight other demolition orders were withdrawn
during the year.
From 1946 until the end of 1958, 241 houses had been
dealt with as follows:—
Demolition Orders made 209*
Agreements entered into with owners to "close"
or repair or Closing Orders made 32
Houses demolished as a result of formal or
informal action 204
Persons who have been displaced 661