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and all the intermediate towns and villages along
the South Western Railway as far as and
including Esher. The supply is under the direct
supervision of the Local Government Board as
well as under the scrutiny of the London County
Council, and is, moreover, daily examined and
analysed by the skilled advisers of the Water
Board itself as well as of the other Authorities,
so that any further examination, so far as this
Council is concerned, would be superfluous
excepting so far as relates to the distributing
mains, &c.
There is no need whatever for the use of
filters if the drinking supply is drawn direct
from the main, but if and where drinking water
is supplied through storage cisterns, it then
becomes a vital necessity for the householder to
take care that these are properly cleansed two
or three times a year, kept covered—to exclude
light, dust and foreign bodies—and that the particular
cistern in question has no direct communication
with any drain or closet.
Tolworth Brook.—When the transfer to
the new sewerage works is made and the Tolworth
Sewage Farm ceases to be used, some
considerable time must elapse for the necessary
purification of the soil before any use can be
made of it beyond cultivation, and with that
disuse the duties of the now notorious (in the
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