Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, . Plate 4. nothing to prevent heavy pollution of the water supply due to the proximity ofsome pit privies. (Plates 6 and 7.) The pipe line after passing this section and before discharging into thereservoir passes through Lyon Park, a public playground. As we found defeca-tions at several places in this area, it would seem advisable to provide this parkwith a public lavatory, in order to prevent any possible chance of infection to thewater supply. The pit privies should also be forbidden and tight boxes and dryearth closets used in the last mentioned ar
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, . Plate 4. nothing to prevent heavy pollution of the water supply due to the proximity ofsome pit privies. (Plates 6 and 7.) The pipe line after passing this section and before discharging into thereservoir passes through Lyon Park, a public playground. As we found defeca-tions at several places in this area, it would seem advisable to provide this parkwith a public lavatory, in order to prevent any possible chance of infection to thewater supply. The pit privies should also be forbidden and tight boxes and dryearth closets used in the last mentioned area. The chlorination apparatus, designed by Mr. Foster, the Water WorksEngineer, is such that in the event of the flow of the disinfectant being materiallydecreased or ceasing entirely, an electrical circuit is completed and a bell warns the 54 THE REPORT OF THE No. 21. B u 1916 PROVINCIAL BOARD OF HEALTH. 55 engineer in charge of the pump house. Unfortunately, this does not always is reported that the water has been chlorinated continuously since the out-break during the early part of the year, and the quantity now being used is aboutthirteen pounds of hypochlorite of lime per million gallons of water. The old reservoir, lying immediately alongside the new concrete reservoir, hasa capacity of about 1,500,000 gallons. This old reservoir is connected to the pumpwell by an old channel and partly by a fourteen-inch cast iron pipe passing underthe floor of the new reservoir; this pipe is provided with a gate valve on the oldreservoir end. The water level in this old reservoir was at the time of our in-spection about fifteen inches below the level of the water in the pure water reservoir,and the bottom of the reservoir is covered with a very heavy vegetable growth andlittered with old cans and rubbish. On the banks of the old reservoir we foundwel
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