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I hope that means will be found to cope more efficiently
with future outbreaks, and the Authorities are striving to find
machinery for so doing.
3. Water Supply.
The water supply of this District is from the South-West
Suburban Water Co., whose central works are at Egham. I
am not satisfied with this supply. I have received the
chemical and bacteriological analyses of samples obtained
from all parts of their District, and these have seldom been
entirely satisfactory; indeed occasionally worse than this.
The only redeeming feature has been that the best samples
have been those drawn from your area.
But, as I pointed out to your Sanitary Committee, I shall
not feel free from anxiety on this score until some improvement
in the bacteriological reports is shewn.
4. Slaughter Houses and Meat Supply.
There are two slaughterhouses in your District, both of
which I have visited and found in a satisfactory condition.
The meat sold in the District has been of sound quality. I
have only had to condemn one carcase of butcher's meat, and
that on the complaint of the butcher. One consignment of
bacon at a provision dealer's shop I also found unfit for food
and condemned. This was on the complaint of the provision
dealer.
5. Housing Accommodation.
Owing to the large number of persons employed at the
different works in the District, the supply of houses is far
short of the requirements. This, of course, tends to the
encouragement of overcrowding and I believe you intend to
take steps to rectify this condition shortly.