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Marsh have always been a source of trouble, as they cannot
be made watertight, and fill up with subsoil water atsoon
as they are emptied, and in addition, during the
winter and wet weather, the Marsh land is in such a
water-logged condition as to make it extremely difficult,
and sometimes impossible for the cesspool emptying vans
to reach the places where the cesspool matter may be
deposited. During the past year the Council have had
under consideration a project for sewering this area,
and the Surveyor has been instructed to prepare the
necessary plans.
(3) Closet Accommodation.
Nearly every house in the district is provided with a
water closet.
There are no privy middens, and only eight houses
with earth closets.
Some of the larger Factories situated on the Marshes
have a system of earth closets as have most of the
smaller ones.
(4) Scavenging.
Before the war all house refuse was collected by the
Council twice a week from movable sanitary dustbins,
but during the war the difficulty of obtaining labour,
and the necessary horses and vehicles obliged the Council
to restrict the collection to once a week.
The collected refuse is deposited on various shoots
on the Marshes.
During 1920 the number of loads of house refuse
removed was 6,463, as compared with 6,321 in 1919.
Before the war when in the course of inspection a
house was found to be without a proper sanitary dustbin,
notice was served on the owner to provide the same.
This procedure had been in abeyance for the past 4 years,
but has been resumed again during 1920.