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On considering the suggestion for the appointment of a special Cleansing
Officer, the Council expressed the view that as long as the principle of
contract work is continued, appointment of such special officer would be
unnecessary, and further that the Minister's suggestion would be met in
principle if the whole service were placed under the control of one officer,
instead of being divided, with house and trade refuse under the Medical
Officer of Health and the street cleansing under the Borough Engineer and
Surveyor To implement this view the Council at its meeting on the 11th
July, 1934, adopted a resolution transferring the supervision of the collection
and disposal of house and trade refuse from the Medical Officer of Health to
the Borough Engineer and Surveyor as from the 1st August, 1934
In submitting their report on the matter the Public Health Committee
expressed appreciation of the excellent manner in which the work had been
carried out by the Medical Officer of Health and his department during the
previous twenty-nine years
Scavenging
The removal of house and trade refuse is carried out by contract In the
main thoroughfares, and in a number of other principal streets, there is a daily
collection In the remainder of the streets the collection is twice weekly
In a very large majority of the houses in the Borough, the old large fixed
ashpits have been replaced by movable sanitary ashbins
The supervision of the work connected with the removal and disposal of house
and trade refuse was, as previously mentioned, transferred from the Medical
Officer of Health and the Public Health Department, to the Borough Engineer
and the Works and General Purposes Department, as from the 1st August, 1934
Dust Inspector
The Inspector appointed to supervise the removal of house refuse reported
to the Medical Officer of Health daily up to the 31st July respecting: —
(a) Early morning collections from main streets
(b) Condition of ashbins placed on the footways in streets where there is
a daily collection
(c) The use of bins failing to comply with the by-laws
(d) Litter on the public way
(e) Regularity of collection from streets where the removal is bi-weekly
(f) Breakdown of vehicles causing delay in collection of refuse
(g) Complaints received of non-collection, delay, etc
(h) Spillage or litter made by dustmen and not properly cleaned up
(i) Generally on any matters relating to, or arising in connection with,
the removal of refuse
Removal of Offal
No breach of the by-laws made by the London County Council respecting the
removal of offal was reported during the year
Removal of Manure
The removal of manure from the various mews in the Borough was
generally satisfactorily carried out during the year, but it was necessary to serve
two Statutory Notices for the provision of proper manure receptacles The
notices were at once complied with