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A further sum of £35 13s. 9d. was paid for chemicals
and carbolic soap, thus raising the cost incurred by
the Sanitary Department for disinfection to the sum
of £296 15s. l0d.
Canal Basin.
The water in the Canal Basin was run off on the
evening of April 5th, and let in again on the evening
of April 8th. 500 tons of mud were removed from
the Basin. Nothing was done in the way of further
concreting the bottom beyond repairing defects.
Water.
Paddington is supplied with water by the Grand
Junction and West Middlesex Companies, which draw
their supplies from the Thames, as do also the Chelsea,
the Lambeth, the Southwark, and Vauxhall Companies.
The remaining Metropolitan Water Companies are the
Kent Company, whose water is drawn from the deep
wells, and the New River Company and East London
Company, both of which derive their water from the
River Lea and other sources. For the purposes of
comparison, Professor Frankland, in his annual report
to the Registrar-General on the condition of these
waters during 1890, includes also the results of similar
examinations of the water supplied by the Colne
Valley Water Company and the Tottenham Local
Board of Health. He states that the weather during