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Under the Acton Improvement Act, 1904, the Council has
power to inspect cows and to take samples of milk if it be
suspected that any cow is suffering from tuberculosis, but the
conditions have changed so materially in recent years that in
only a very small percentage of cases, can the clauses of the Act
become operative. There are only two cowkespers in the
district, and most of the milk is produced outside. The small
purveyors of milk obtain their supply from large wholesale
distributors, and it would be almost impossible to trace the farm
from which the milk originally came.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
A description of the Sewage Works has been given in
previous reports. By the Sewage Act of 1905, all the sewage is
taken out of the district immediately.
Under Section 33, the London County Council received into
its sewers all the sewage up to an average of 50 gallons per
head of the population per day.
Under Section 21 of the Act, the Acton Council is empowered
to send flood water after proper treatment into the River Thames.
The storm-water is treated at Acton in the filter beds provided
for the purpose. No storm water is to be passed untreated to
the Thames except when the total flow from the district into the
London sewers and to the sewage disposal works of the Council
is at a rate exceeding one hundred and seventy-five gallons per
head per day of the approximate population for the time being
of the district.
The storm overflows came into action 17 times during the
year 1910.
REFUSE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL.
The whole of the refuse of the district is collected by direct
labour once in each week, including trade refuse up to half-aload
from each building. The refuse has to be stored by the