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PUBLIC CLEANSING.
Weekly collection of house refuse is in operation in the Borough
although collections of refuse at tenement buildings, eating houses and
places where food is prepared are made at more frequent intervals.
The whole of the refuse is brought to the Council's Depot at Manor
Place for transportation by rail to country depots at Longfield and
Sevenoaks. The Sevenoaks Depot was closed on 22nd November, 1937,
all the space used for tipping having been filled in.
Approximately 50 per cent, of the house refuse is passed through
pulverising machines, the crushed material being disposed of partly by
sale to Kent farmers as a dressing for heavy soil; the remainder is used
as a covering for the rough dust at the tips.
At the Longfield Depot, controlled tipping is operated satisfactorily.
There are no cesspools, earth closets or privies in the Borough.
SWIMMING BATH WATER.
The Council possess 5 swimming pools. Three at Manor Place Baths
and 2 at Lavington Street Baths.
Manor Place Baths.
During the last two years all these baths have been equipped with
the most up-to-date plant for continuous filtration and sterilisation by
ozone. In each bath there is a complete turnover of the water every
two and a half hours. Weekly samples of the water are taken for analysis,
and the results obtained even in the height of the summer season prove
the plant to be most efficacious in keeping the water in a good state of
bacterial purity.
As is the case in all old-fasliioned baths there is lack of pre-ablution
facilities for bathers.
Lavington Street Baths.
These baths have been condemned by the Council and new baths are
shortly to be erected on a site in the Borough High Street to replace them.
There is no filtration plant and the purity of the water has to be
maintained by frequent emptying and refilling of the baths and by the
addition of small quantities of Parazone. The water in these baths is
completely changed 2 or 3 times weekly, depending on the number of
persons using the baths.
Bacteriological analysis proves that at the height of the season it
is difficult to maintain a good standard of bacteriological purity, hence
the condemnation of these baths.