[Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Hertfordshire County Council.

  • Hertfordshire (England). County Council. n 50062101.
Date:
1923
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Credit: [Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Hertfordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    17 •' * \ ' ' _ , ... „ | WATER SUPPLY. The general source of water supply in the various Districts of the County and the defects still complained of have been fully described in previous Reports. The Urban Districts are, as a whole, well supplied and the standard of purity is high, although in some districts the total hardness reaches a high figure. No serious shortage such as was experienced in the latter part of 1921 and early part of 1922 occurred, as the year was a wet one. It is proposed in next year’s annual report to include an up-to-date description of the water-supplies in the various districts of the county. RIVERS POLLUTION. River Lea. — Hertfordshire representative on the Lea Conservancy Board : H. N. G. Bushby, Esq. The River Lea rises just north of Dunstable, in Bedfordshire, and flowing through Luton enters the County a mile north of Harpenden, cutting across eastwards north of Hatfield, through Hertford and Ware, to join the Stort Navigation close to Hoddesdon, where it turns south and forms the eastern border of Herts. It receives the Mirnram, Beane, Rib, Ash, and Stort, and drains most of the northern third and eastern section of the County. Pymmes Brook, in East Barnet Valley, on leaving the County, flows due eastward into the New River. River Thames. Thames Conservancy Board.—Hertfordshire C.C. Representative: Right Hon. Sir Frederick Halsey, Bart. The new Board exercises authoiity over the River above Teddington, with its tributaries, including the River Colne. The Colne rises to the west of Hatfield, flows south-west by Colney Heath, London Colney, and across the Midland Railway and the Watling Street at Colney Street. Passing to the south of Rickmansworth between Watford and Bushey Stations, it receives certain streams, notably in Hertfordshire the Ver, the Chess and the Gade. The Chess, from Chesham, in Bucks, passed just east of Chorleywood and Rickmansworth, and joins the Colne near the North-Western railway station of Rickmansworth. The Gade, from Gaddesden and Hemel Hempstead, receives the Bulbourne, from Northchurch and Berkhampstead, below Boxmoor, and flows along 011 the west side of the North-Western Railway by King’s Langley through Cassiobury Park west of Watford, to join the Colne just east of Rickmansworth.