[Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Bexhill U.D.C. Borough.

  • Bexhill (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1939
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Credit: [Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Bexhill U.D.C. Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SANITARY CIRCUlviS TANGES OP THE AREA l.(i) Water Supply The control of the water supply within the Borough is delegated to the Borough Connell under the Bexhill Corporation Act, 1925. No new sources of public water supply were utilised during 1939, but the distributive system has been extended to cover a large part of the parish of Catsfield in the Battle Rural District. To meet this demand 917 yds. of 6” and 5927 yds. of 4 Cast Iron Main were laid, and 39 Fire Hydrants were fixed. The number of pro- perties capable of taking a supply from these mains is 150, and the number of properties connected, at the end of the year vms 71. With regard to? (a) Quality - the water is of excellent quality both for drinking and domestic purposes. An analysis of a sample taken during 1939 is submitted under a later part of the report. (b) Quantity - The supply has met the demands oi' those parts of the Borough v/hlch are on a piped supply throughout the j^ear^ and there has been no curtailment. 0\-/ing to the outbreak of hostilities is has not been possible to proceed with the scheme for the provision of a piped supply in one of the more rural parts of the Borough in which development is taking place and in which the present supply is b^r means of v/ells. The same arrangements with regard to the bacteriological and chemical examination of the piped supply of the Borough, as outlined in ehe report for last year, have boon continued during 1939, with the same satisfactory results. The average quantity of water used daily during 1939 in the water area was 1,043,019. It represents an increase of 11,920 gallons per day as compared vmth 1938. The average consumption per head per diem in the water area for 1939 v/as gallons, as follows? for trade purposes, j for domestic purposes, .1^.