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Collection of House Refuse.
The house refuse is collected from almost every house in the
district once in seven days. At holiday time however, the work
gets a little behind for a few weeks. There are about 5,000 calls to
be made weekly or about 850 houses per day to be visited. Four
carts are at work with a driver and two men to e.ach cart, so that
each cart and men must collect the dust from 200 to 250 houses per
diem. A very large amount of time is lost by reason of the men
having to collect the bins from the back yards and carry them in
many instances 40 or 50 yards before reaching the cart. It would
no doubt be a very great saving of time and labour if the occupiers,
where possible, brought their dustbins in to the forecourt of the
house for emptying and cleansing.
The cost of collecting the house refuse for the year ending
March, 1905, was £.1,088, or exactly 1d. per week per house.
Sewerage and Sewage Disposal.
The treatment of the Sewage by precipitation in tanks after
the addition of a certain amount of alumino ferric is still adhered to,
and no complaint has been received from the Thames Conservancy
Board during the year with regard to the effluent. The accumulation
of sludge was becoming rather large, but a good deal of this
has now been got rid of. In the rural portion of the district cesspools
and their overflows are a great nuisance, and I think the
Council would be well advised, both financially and from a sanitary
point of view, to invest in a suitable machine for emptying them.
Offensive Trades.
There is no licensed "Offensive Trade" in the District. I
think bye-laws should be adopted for the regulation of such
trades.