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With tow loading line, form the most economical units for
house-to-house refuse collection, though motor transport would
obviously be preferred for longer distance conveyance, combined,
if necessary, with the transference of loads from carts to motors
at certain selected depots throughout the district.
CESSPOOLS, PRIVYMIDDENS AND PAIL-CLOSETS.
For cesspool emptying, a tank vehicle is employed, the
contents being pumped out and afterwards discharged into the
sewers. Privymiddens, of which there are 24, are emptied into
tumbrils and the contents buried; the same remark being applicable
to pail-closets.
STREET REFUSE.
Dustless road construction and the development of motor
road transport have materially reduced the quantity and
character of street refuse. So far Barking has not yet acquired
motor-brooms, vacuum gully cleaners, or combined street
sweepers and collectors. Though street cleansing may be said,
up to a point, to be satisfactory, its principal defect consists
in that heaps of refuse left on streets for later collection, prove
at times, a nuisance. This difficulty could be surmounted by
the institution of street bins for temporary storage purposes.
Housing Statistics for the year 1925.
1. GENERAL.
Number of new houses erected during the year:—
(i) Total 183
(ii) As part of a municipal housing scheme Nil
(iii) Others (including private enterprise and
subsidy houses) 183
2. UNFIT DWELLING HOUSES.
I.—Inspection.
(i) Total number of dwelling houses inspected
for housing defects (under
Public Health or Housing Acts) 3,134