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Saint Leonard, Shoreditch,
Vestry Offices,
Town Hall, Old St., E.C.
April, 1877.
Sir,
CONSTANT WATER SUPPLY.
We arc directed by the Vestry of this parish to make
formal complaint to the Local Government Board, pursuant to the
11 th Section of the Metropolis Act, 1871.
1 st.—That by reason of the insufficiency as to capacity, and
the improper situation and construction of many of
the vessels for storing water in many parts of this
parish situate within the District, supplied by the
New River Company, such water is unwholesome,
and the health of the inhabitants of such district is
or is likely to be prejudically affected.
2nd.—That the Metroplitan Board of Works, being the
Metropolitan Authority, has been requested by the
Vestry of this parish, as the Sanitary Authority, to
require the New River Company to furnish a constant
supply in some parts of this parish, and such
Metropolitan Authority refuses to make such application.
The following evidence is submitted in proof of the correctness
of these complaints.
The Sanitary Inspector reports (March, 1877,) that in the
district within this parish bounded by the Kingsland Road on the
East, Mintern Street, Bridport Place, and New North Road on
the West, the Regent's Canal on the North, and Old Street on
the South, the Water receptacles of 2,038 houses have been
inspected during the previous four weeks, and that in 1,345 of these
houses the water is stored in butts.
Only 224 of these butts are in fair condition, 1,101 are more
or less very dirty, dilapidated, uncovered and unsuitably situated,
water in such butts being evidently unfit for drinking purposes.