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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
REFUSE COLLECTION.
The conversion of horse-drawn vans from the high-loading to the low-loading bodies, and
the discarding of other vans for motor vehicles has been continued throughout the year, and a
steady improvement has been effected in the collection service.
There is an improved daily collection in eleven main streets where there is traffic congestion,
and a daily collection is undertaken before 9 a.m. in a number of other streets and blocks of flats.
In a number of other cases, there is a thrice-weekly collection, and in the rest of the borough it
is twice weekly.
Twenty-two per cent. of the Kensington refuse is barged away from Kensal Wharf to dumps
at Yeading and Harefield, Middlesex ; 34 per cent. is disposed of in the refuse destructor
installation at Wood Lane ; and 44 per cent. is barged away from the Chelsea Wharf to a dump
beyond Tilbury, Essex.
The Council have introduced standardised dustbins, and during the year 922 of these were
sold to residents. Four hundred and fifty dust.holes have been abolished and replaced by dustbins.
In premises where a large amount of refuse accumulates, the Council's cleansing superintendent
has endeavoured to have the container system instituted and up to the present time 45
containers have been installed in the borough.
REFUSE REMOVAL FROM MEWS.
The common dustbins installed by the council in 1921, in 20 mewsways in North Kensington
at the expense of the owners, have continued to prove a satisfactory arrangement for storing
house refuse in these particular mews in which there are a number of dwellings, stables and
costermongers' stores.
The problem of securing hygienic conditions in mewsways has been tackled with considerable
success during past years as a result of close co.operation between the officers in the public health
department and the borough engineer's department.
SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE.
Every house in the borough is connected with the water carriage system for the disposal of
sewage and, generally speaking, house drainage in Kensington is very satisfactory.