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PART I I I
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 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 Beservoir and treated at the
Board's filtration works at Walton. A contact tank was brought
into operation in April, 1953.
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.
The supply to the Tottenham area has been satisfactory both in quantity
and quality during the year 1953 Details of the analytical results of the
water passing into supply are given in the tables."
Attention was drawn in last year's annual report to the provisions of