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Drainage and Sewerage. Normal maintenance work has been
carried out on soil and surface water sewers. No major improvement
schemes have been undertaken but sections of defective sewers and
drain connections have been renewed in various parts of the district.
The work on the surface water relief sewer, to which reference was made
in my report last year, has now been completed. Arrangements are in
hand for work to commence shortly on the relaying of a length of surface
water sewer in Grand Drive and Meadow Close.
Rivers and Streams. No major improvement works were carried
out during the year. Arrangements are at present in hand providing for
the piping of a length of ditch at the rear of the Cannon Hill Lane
houses adjoining the London County Council Technical School Sports
Ground.
Public Cleansing. Normal operations in public cleansing were
continued throughout the year and a total of 15,449 tons of refuse was
collected from January to December. Further repairs have been undertaken
to the fire brick lining of the refuse disposal plant but no major
improvements have been carried out. Smoke alarm equipment has been
installed in the main flue to the chimney and also in the trade waste
incinerator flue which has assisted in controlling the emission of dense smoke from the plant.

Water Supply. The district is supplied by the Metropolitan Water
Board and by the Sutton District Water Company, their respective
distributive areas being approximately the parishes of Merton and
Morden.
The supply of the Metropolitan Water Board is only sampled
infrequently as a routine, otherwise samples are taken when circumstances
indicate the necessity for local investigation. The Board supplies
copies of their official minutes in which the results of the examinations
are recorded.
Routine examinations of the Sutton District Water Company's
supply are undertaken by the Authorities in the supply area on agreed
rota, which provides for bacteriological and chemical samples each
month. The Company, in addition to the examinations undertaken by
their own full-time Chemist, arrange for Consulting Chemists to undertake
monthly examinations. Copies of the reports of these Consulting
Chemists are received by local Medical Officers of Health, whilst the
records of the Company's own analyses are available for inspection by
the Medical Officers.
All dwellings in the district have a piped supply and the water
which is both satisfactory in quality and quantity is not regarded as
being plumbo-solvent.
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