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Nurse Dawkins has paid 1,901 visits, and nursed patients when
necessary. She has given out 1,056 bottles of disinfectants, and taken
six patients to different hospitals.
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DRAINAGE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
The Bacterial treatment of a portion of the Sewage delivered to the
Sewage Works by means of an open septic tank, followed by continuous
filtration, having proved successful, the Council undertook to treat the
whole of the Sewage in this manner, but instead of delivering the
effluent from the septic tank to the filters by a revolving filter actuated
by a pulsometer, they decided to deliver it by gravitation. During the
year the new filters have been prepared and will soon be at work. The
work has taken a considerable time to carry out, principally on account
of the difficulty of obtaining suitable material for the filters, though the
work was impeded by the necessity of carrying on the existing chemical
treatment of the Sewage while alterations were being made to tanks, &c.
It is hoped that the new installation will be at work at the beginning of
the next financial year.
DRAINAGE.
Sewers have been laid by owners of land in the following roads:—
Length.
Albert Villas Road, Surface Water Sewer 70 yds.
Graham Road, Soil and S.W. Sewers 230 „
St. Alban's Avenue, S.W. Sewer 157
Ramillies Road, Soil and S.W. Sewers 630 „
Back Way, Mill Hill Grove, Soil Sewer 120 „
Bedford Road, Soil and S.W. Sewers 110 „