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17.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
WATER SUPPLY
Except for eight houses in Goat Road, supplied by the Sutton Water Company
the whole of Mitcham is supplied by the Metropolitan Water Board. A few
factories have an additional supply from deep wells.
There are five licensed oaravan yards, each with a stand pipe, supplying
altogether a total of 23 caravans.
The standard of purity of the water was maintained at the usual high
level. There is no record in the Borough of any case of infeotious disease
being transmitted by water.
A large number of houses in the Borough have no supply of drinking water
direot from the main, but are supplied from a tank in the roof. Provided the
tank is properly covered and is cleansed regularly, it provides a satisfactory
supply.
SWIMMING BATHS
Seven samples from the Alfred Mizen school swimming baths and 18 from
the Corporation baths were sent for bacteriological examination during the year
All were satisfactory.
RIVERS AND STREAMS
Visits have been paid to all works suspected of discharging effluent
Into surface water sewers.
CLOSET ACCOMODATION
The whole of the district is on the water carriage system, the houses
being drained to the publio sewer, then treated at the works of the Wandle
Valley Joint Sewerage Board, situated in Mitcham.
PUBLIC CLEANSING
In the winter a weekly collection of house refuse is oarried out and in
the summer more frequently. Eleven refuse collection vehioles are in use.