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III. SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF STOKE
NEWINGTON
HOUSE REFUSE
A new system of house refuse collection and disposal has been
introduced in the Borough during the year.
Under the old arrangements the house refuse was collected
in low loading horse drawn dust vans and incinerated at the refuse
destructor in Milton Grove, and the clinker removed under
contract.
The Council, at a meeting held on the 29th January, 1933,
agreed to enter into a contract with the Islington Borough Council
as from the 1st January, 1937, for the disposal of this Council's
refuse at the rate of 7s. 2d. per ton on the basis of 10,000 tons,
for a period of 10 years.
Subsequently, at a meeting of the Council held on the 10th
January, 1938, it was agreed to increase the figure to 7s. 3d. per
ton as from the 25th October, 1937, owing to the provision by
the London and North Eastern Railway Company of 45 sperial
50-ton wagons to take the refuse from Ashburton Grove Depot
to shoots in Hertfordshire.
The refuse from this Borough is conveyed to the Islington
Borough Council's Depot at Ashburton Grove and tipped into
conveyors at that Depot. The refuse is then carried along moving
belts, sorted and automatically tipped into railway waggons, which
are properly trimmed and covered before being dispatched. The
Islington Borough Council is responsible for the deposit of the
refuse into the railway trucks and the prevention of any nuisance
or annoyance at Ashburton Grove Depot and the two shoots in
Hertfordshire.
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