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As you are doubtless aware the sewers in this
parish are flushed automatically, and during the
summer months disinfectants freely used.
Water Supply.
The chief portion of the district is supplied by
the West Middlesex Water Company, with the
exception of Bedford Park and a certain number of
houses on the north side of the Chiswick High Road.
The very important question of a constant supply
to every house in the parish is one that I have brought
to your notice in several of my previous Annual
Reports, and I am glad to find that a resolution has
been recently passed by your Council that this should
be adopted. An intermittent supply with storage
cisterns placed on the roofs of water closets in small
back yards, is a common state of things and they are
sometimes placed immediately under the bedroom
floors, receiving the dust and other impurities when
the room is swept. There is no direct evidence that
the bacilli of typhoid fever may not occasionally find
their way into these cisterns, when they are too
frequently uncovered, and but on rare occasions
cleansed, rendering them the cause of much pollution.
Water used for drinking purposes should always be
drawn direct from the main.
According to the monthly reports on the composition
and quality of the samples of water supplied by
the two Companies, viz., the West Middlesex and
Grand Junction. They have been found clear, bright,
and well filtered, with but few exceptions when one
has been recorded as " clear, but dull." Frequent
samples have been taken from the different stand-