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(3) Bye-Laws with respect to Tents, Vans. Sheds, and similar Structures
(April 3rd, 1922).
(4) Bye-Laws as to Slaughterhouses (March 17th, 1925).
(5) Bye-Laws as to New Streets and Buildings (October 16th, 1925).
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area.
WATER.
The Rickmansworth and Uxbridge Valley Water Company have
Parliamentary powers to supply water in the Hayes Urban area. 'Their
mains, however, do not embrace the whole of the district, but where the public
mains are laid the supply is satisfactory. From the junction of Coldharbour Lane
with the main London to Oxford Road, eastward to the boundary of the district
the only water supply available is from surface wells. Samples of water taken
from these wells at varying periods of the year have repeatedly been certified as
unfit for domestic purposes.
As stated in my Report for last year the Water Company was approached
with a view of providing a proper supply of water in this area, but their considered
reply included a desire for the Hayes Council to construct water mains 1,200 yards
in extent on each side of the road. At a date when the receipts from the rentals
for three consecutive years showed a profit of 10 per cent. the Water Company
were prepared to take over the mains.
The Council could not of course entertain such a proposal.
I consider that the absence of a safe water supply in this part of the district
is matter of grave concern.
RIVERS AND STREAMS.
The River Crane, also known as Yeading Brook, which rises in the direction
of Harrow, passes through the district and forms the north-eastern boundary for
about 930 yards and the eastern boundary for about two miles.
The effluents from the Sewage Disposal Works of Wealdstone, Harrow,
and Ruislip are discharged into it, and these effluents form the greater part of the
volume of the flow. The stream is always more or less polluted.