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The walls of the building are formed with 4in. clinker
concrete of slabs rendered outside with cement and washed sand,
and the floors are formed with 9in. clinker cement concrete and
covered with Newoleum Patent composition Flooring fin. thick.
The walls are ceiled at the level of the wall plates with fibrous
plaster set in Keen's cement, and the inside of the wall is rendered
in Serapite.
The cost of the building itself was £4,159, or 4-66 pence
per cubic foot.
The building is heated with hot water on the low-pressure
system, and the steam for heating the water in a calorifier is
conveyed from the refuse destructor.
In each ward there are also Shorlands ward-ventilating
stoves, but these are only used when it is inconvenient to heat
with steam.
The cost of the heating apparatus was £668.
COMMON LODGING HOUSE.
There is only one common lodging house in the district.
REFUSE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL.
The whole of the refuse of the district is collected by direct
labour once a week, including trade refuse up to half a load from
each building.
The house refuse is destroyed in the Council's Refuse
Destructor.
Last year, 11,600 tons of house refuse and 1,300 loads of
laundry clinker were collected and destroyed.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
A description of the Sewage Works has been given in previous
reports. The whole of the sewage is removed into the London