[Report 1959 / Medical Officer of Health, Stevenage U.D.C.
- Stevenage (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1959
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1959 / Medical Officer of Health, Stevenage U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ANNUAL REPORT of the CHIEF PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTOR for the year 1939 To the Chairman and Members of the Stevenage Urban District Council. I have pleasure in presenting my report for the year ending Jt'lst December, ■1939* \ SECTION C SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA i) Water Supply The v;ater undertaking is at present vested in the Stevenage Development Corporation. The supply is obtained frori boreholes Nos. 1, 2 a.nd 3 at Whitehall Pumping Station from vfnich about 2 million gallons per day are obtained - the station is capable of supplying some 3*7 million gallons/day when this is required by future development. Two storage reservoirs each of 2 million gallons capacity and e. high level water tower having % million gallon capacity have been constructed at Pinn Green, an area some k mi].cs distant from the pumping station. The water tower is not yet in use except as a supply to some isolated cottages. A reserve of about million galls/day is available at Broomin Green borehole. This supply would require special chlorination before it could be used for drinlring purposes as it is subject to periodic contamination. At the present time it is used only for research purposes by the Water Pollution Laboratories of the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. The water supply is regularly sampled, and during the year I submitted 131 samples to the Public Health Laboratory Service at Luton for bacteriological examination - 130 samples proved](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30256999_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
