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PART III
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
Water Supply
The Metropolitan Water Board has continued 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 1952. Details of the
analytical results of the water passing into supply are given in
the tables appended.
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 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 bacteriologically
to ensure that its quality is up to that normally
supplied.