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Water Supply.—During the year 147 water supply certificates
have been granted under Section 48 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891. Defective water fittings have been remedied in 15 cases;
86 water supplies have been reinstated where the supply had been
cut off; water fittings have been amended in 143 cases; 3 water
supplies have been altered so as to draw direct from the main,
and cleansing, repairing and covering cisterns in 5 cases.
House Drainage.—Forty-three drains have been constructed,
142 drainage systems have been reconstructed or repaired; 484
such systems have also been opened, cleansed and amended; 45
surface drains have been constructed; 51 drains and soil pipes
have been ventilated; 255 systems have been tested by smoke,
326 by water, of which number 118 were found to be defective; 36
new soil pipes and 226 traps have been fixed, together with 26 intercepting
chambers and fresh air inlets, and 59 other chambers.
Twenty-three new covers to manholes have been provided.
Eight systems have been sealed off or slurried up. Two forecourts
5 areas, and 28 yards drained; 3 cesspools abolished; 26 waterclosets
have been erected; 123 cleansed and repaired; 47 w.c. doors
and seats repaired or provided. A pan, trap and water supply
have been furnished throughout in 58 cases; pan and traps only
furnished in 140 cases; pans only in 4 cases, and other fittings
provided or improved in 227 cases, whilst the water supply has been
renewed in 12 instances. Public-house urinals have been cleansed
and repaired in 20 instances.
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts.—No applications were
received during the year for certificates under these Acts.
Horse Slaughterer.—The one horse slaughtering premises
in the Borough has been inspected on four occasions and the cleansing
of the premises duly carried out.
Scavenging and Refuse Disposal.—The new Refuse,
Screening and Disposal Plant and Buildings which have been in
the course of construction during the last few years are now duly
completed, but up to Christmas the plant was only used for experimental
purposes. As a matter of fact they were taken into
full use on 22nd April of this current year and are now disposing
of approximately 30 tons per diem of the house refuse of this
Borough out of an approximate total of 40 tons collected daily.
The general principle underlying the whole system is that of a
thorough and detailed selection and sorting of the whole of the
refuse, it being put through various mechanical screening