[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich].

  • Woolwich (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1914?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    86 For bacteriological examination 127 samples were taken, and an average of 8.8 microbes per cub. centim. were found present. This was slightly below the average for the whole of the Kent wells, and compares favourably with the number of microbes present in 1907, viz., 14.3. Houses with Water Supply outside the House. A report on this subject was contained in the Annual Report for 1912. 2. Water Supply in Tenement Houses. An additional tap and sink were supplied on at least one upper floor of 18 tenement houses, under the Public Health (London) Act, Sec. 48, previously to the coming into force of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1907, by which a suitable water supply can be required on each separately occupied floor of a tenement house. Under this Act an additional supply was required and provided at 25 houses in 1908, 30 houses in 1909, 3 in 1910, 2 in 1911, 6 in 1912, and 4 in 1913. 29 of these houses were in the Dockyard and St. Mary's Wards, 13 in River Ward, 26 in St. George's Ward, and 2 in Eltham. There were three prosecutions in 1909, which were recorded in full in the Annual Report for that year. 3. Defective and foul storage cisterns were found and remedied at 33 houses, compared with 51, 34, and 55, in the three preoeding years. At 24 houses the supply was found insufficient br temporarily cut off, and the necessary steps taken for obtaining a proper supply. FOOD AND DRUGS ACT. 4. 513 (samples were submitted to the Public Analyst, and 29, or 5 6 per cent., were found to be adulterated,