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PART 3
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
Water Supply
The Metropolitan Water Board continues to supply water to
the Borough and I am indebted to the Director of Water Examination
for the following information
"The supply to the Tottenham area has been satisfactory both
in quantity and quality during the year 1951,
The area is supplied from two sources:
(a) Water from the New River and treated at the Board's
filtration works at Hornsey and Stoke Newington
(b) River Thames water stored in Walton reservoir and treated
at the Board's filtration works at Walton
Samples are collected on five days in every week, or more
often if required, at each stage of the purification process and
tests include physical, chemical and microbiological examination
The water supplied to this area is not plumbo solvent
All new and repaired mains are chlorinated before being
restored to use and samples of water from them are tested bac
teriologically to ensure that its quality is up to that normally
supplied"
"Details of the analytical results of the water passing into
supply are given in the following tables":-