[Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Arundel Borough.

  • Arundel (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1944
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Credit: [Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Arundel Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (C) Voluntary Hospitals serikig the. District . • (a) P.oycl Wost Suss ox Hospital, Chi chost or fl (b) Arundel Cottage Hospital, Section ITI. SANITARY CIRCTJiBTANCES OF THE AEt£A Supply ThG Borough continues to bo supplied with water by The Duko of Norfolk from a bore and well situate on his Estate near Swanbourne Lake; the bore is approximate].:’ VO Coot do op, the depth of the well being 20 foot„ water is pumped to three reservoirs by moans of heavy oil engines and w: th turbines workod by wator from Swanbourne Lake as auxiliaries. The wator gravitates from the storage reservoirs by means of cast iron mains to all parts of the. ^oroughj with service mains also supplying portion/? ox' the villages of Burnham, Poling, Lyminstor, Tortington end Warnirgeamp which are situate outside the Borough boundeiy % Ivory nou.se in the Borough receives a piped supply of water from the undertaking,'and the wator has boon sufficient to meet all needs during the year s No now sources of water supply were developed during the year, and no extension of service mains was carried out. The source of the Borough's water supply was the subject of enquiry during the latter part of tho year by an Engineering Inspector of the Ministry of Health who personally visited tho Borough and was subsequently provided with information regarding the Undertaking, The enquiry and inspection arose out of proposals to form a County Advisory Committoe on water supplies in accordance with the suggestions contained in the Government's Command Paper entitled, A National Water Policyc As in the previous year, specimens of raw and chlorinated water were submitted for bacteriological examination at monthly intervals, a total of 26 samples being oxamined during tho year. 13 boing raw water, and 13 chlorinated,, Of tho 13 samples of untreated wator, four were reported upon as being of satisfactory bacterial purity, 3 wore of a suspicious nature, whilst tho remaining 6 specimens showed marked dogrecs of bacterial contamination probably from soil or vegetable pollution. The 13 specimens of chlorinated water from consumer’s taps were all found to be of satisfactory bacterial purity. At the request of tho Regional Engineering Inspector, samples of water from both tho bore and well were submitted to the County Analyst for chomical analysis, whoso report upon the spocimon from the boro was eminently satisfactory. The Analyst reported the proseneo of a fair amount of matter in suspension in tho sample submitted to him from the well, and recommended that stops bo taken for tho elimination of such matter. Advice was sought for tho purpose of giving offset to the County Analyst’s recommendation, and measures to 'that end’have received tho attention‘of tho Council. During the yea:.’ frequent chlorinotric tests using ortho-tolidine as tho re-agent have boon made with tho W, and T, Hellige comparator in order to test the efficiency of tho chlorination plant, when the amount of residual chlorine has always boon found to be not less than 0.2 parts per million, Tho efficiency of chlorination is further confirmed by tho samples of water obt A nod from consumers’ taps, all of which showed coliform organisms to bo absent in 100 c.c,.