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DUST COLLECTION.
For the purpose of the collection of house refuse
the district is divided into three. The collection is a
weekly one and under the supervision of the Public
Health Department, is done by contract. The dust
collected in No. 1 District is removed in van to
Paddington and discharged into barges and taken to
other parts of Middlesex. The Contractors for the
other two districts depend for the disposal of their
refuse on brickfields in the neighbourhood and outlying
parts. With the exception of about two months
the whole of the refuse during the year from these
two districts has been deposited at the Brent brickfields,
Acton Lane, and for the other two months it
was deposited at the Grange brickfields, Chambers
Lane.
Complaints of nuisance arising from the deposit
and combustion of the refuse have on several occasions
been received, and without doubt, the need for a dust
destructor is an immediate one, and will become
increasingly so with the rapid increase of population
in and around the district.