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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE
AREA.
Water Supply.
The water supply to premises in the Borough is provided by
the Metropolitan Water Board.
During the year 450 new houses were certified as having a
proper and sufficient water supply.
Complaints of defective fittings received during the year
numbered 90, which were forwarded to the Metropolitan Water
Board for attention.
Drainage and Seweraĝe.
There are only a few houses in the outlying parts of Dulwich
which are not connected to the water carriage system for the
disposal of sewage matter.
During the year the total reconstruction of drains of premises
was carried out in 99 instances and partial reconstruction of drains
in 492 cases. All drainage work carried out was supervised by the
Sanitary Inspectors.
In one instance a caution was sent at the direction of the
Public Health Committee to a builder who failed to submit plans
of drainage work executed by him.
Eight claims were received from owners of properties in the
Borough that certain drains on their premises which were found
to be in a defective condition were sewers repairable by the
Council and were upheld.
During the year 3 sewers belonging to the Council were reconstructed
and 523 brick road gullies were replaced by pot gullies.
Public Cleansing.
The domestic refuse in the majority of the houses is stored in
movable ash bins, but in London County Council housing estates
and similar block dwelling estates, dust chutes are installed. A
weekly collection of domestic refuse is the rule, but more frequent
collections are made in the case of tenement dwellings.
The refuse is then taken by a fleet of end-loading mechanical
tipping refuse vehicles and loaded into barges on the Grand Surrey
Canal or into railway trucks at the Bricklayer's Arms siding and
taken to refuse dumps at Crayford and Sittingbourne.
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