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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
REFUSE COLLECTION.
During the past year certain of the council's mechanical vehicles have been replaced by new
ones with larger bodies. A number of horse.drawn vehicles have also been converted to trailers,
and a number of similar new trailers built.
These changes in the work of collection have effected a reduction in the number of horses
employed on the work, and have also lessened the cost.
Practically the whole of the council's vehicles are now loaded from the rear, and during the
coming year the few remaining high.loading horse vans will be converted to low. and rear.loading.
The daily collection from traffic.congested streets has further been increased from 14 to 19
thoroughfares, and the collections in these are carried out, in certain thoroughfares, before 9 a.m.,
and in others before 10 a.m. The council continues to collect refuse in the borough not less
frequently than twice weekly.
The refuse disposed of at Yeading and Harefield', Middlesex, has been considerably decreased ;
30.9 per cent, is disposed of in the refuse destructor installation at the Wood Lane depot, and
58.4 per cent, is barged away from the Chelsea wharf to a dump beyond Tilbury, Essex.
The number of the council's standard type of dustbins sold continues to increase, and 537 were
purchased by householders during 1933.
A further improvement has been obtained in the storage of refuse, and the use of 1,280
dustholes and unsatisfactory receptacles has been discontinued and portable dustbins substituted
during the past four years. The number of containers supplied to premises where large quantities
of refuse accumulate has been increased to 63.
REFUSE REMOVAL FROM MEWS.
Eight portable containers have been substituted for common dustbins in seven mewsways in
the borough during the past year, and the method continues to prove a satisfactory arrangement
for the storage of house refuse in those particular mews in which there is a number of dwellings,
stables and costermongers' stores.
The close co.operation between the officers of the public health department and the borough
engineer's department has resulted in a continuance of hygienic conditions in mewsways.
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.