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SECTION C.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
Circular 1650 issued by the Ministry of Health and relating
to the preparation of Annual Reports points out that it is not
necessary to report in detail upon the matters specified under
various headings of this section, but only to refer to matters of
interest and those to which it is desirable to draw attention.
(i) Water.
There are only two dwellings within the Borough where the
drinking water supply is obtained direct from wells, all other
dwellings being on direct supply from the mains of the
Metropolitan Water Board.
During the past year samples were obtained from one of
these wells which had been in use for some sixty years and
submitted for analytical and bacteriological examination. The
reports received thereon were unsatisfactory, and steps were
taken to close the well and to provide a domestic water supply
direct from the public mains. Samples of water in the remaining
well have also been taken for examination and at the time of
writing satisfactory reports in relation to this supply have been
received.
(ii) Drainage and Sewerage.
The Borough Engineer has supplied me with the undermentioned
particulars relative to work in connection with the
public sewers :—
(a) Length of surface water sewers laid or reconstructed
during 1937 190 feet
(b) Length of soil sewers laid or reconstructed
during 1937 —
(iii) Sanitary Inspection of the Area.
Tabular Statement of the Work of the Sanitary Department, 1937.
Inspections.
Number of premises inspected on complaint 850
Number of premises inspected in connection with
infectious disease 242
Number of primary inspections 4181
Number of re-inspections 4314
Total number of inspections and re-inspections 8495