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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES
Water Supply
There were no complaints received during the year
concerning the purity of the water supply. Every dwelling
in the Borough is provided with water direct from
the mains of the Metropolitan Water Board.
Drainage and Sewerage
There were 307 applications for the approval of
plans submitted in respect of the drainage of new buildings
or the reconstruction of existing drains. The
Council's Public Health Inspectors supervised the carrying
out of all these works.
The relaying of 5,219 lineal feet of sewers was
carried out in accordance with the Council's sewers
reconstruction programme which is under the control of
the Borough Engineer and Surveyor
Nuisances from pigeons
Where pigeons or house doves congregate in such
numbers as to cause any nuisance annoyance or damage the
Council is empowered by section 121 of the Public Health
(London) Act 1936 to sieze and destroy or sell or
otherwise dispose of, or cause to be siezed and destroyed
or sold or otherwise disposed of. any such house doves or
pigeons in excess of such number as the sanitary authority
consider reasonable.
Nuisances by pigeons frequently do occur and it has
been the practice for many years for the Council to
authorise an approved person to act as pigeon catcher and
arrange for him to deal with any nuisances Considerable
difficulty was experienced during the year in securing
the services of a suitable person to act in this capacity
following the death of the Council's official pigeon
catcher.
It would seem that other Boroughs have experienced
similar difficulties and in June consideration was given
to the matter by the Metropolitan Boroughs Standing
Joint Committee who informed constituent Councils that
the Ministry of Agriculture. Fisheries and Food had
recently organised a course for public health inspectors