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SECTION C.
SANITARY AND ENVIRONMENTAL
CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE
PROVISIONS) ACT, 1956.
This Act places on local authorities the duty of securing the
provision and maintenance of sanitary accommodation for the use
of employees on agricultural holdings, of which there are 27 in the
district.
To these, 29 visits were paid and sanitary accommodation
found to be defective in one instance, was remedied.
CESSPOOLS.
The year 1960 has seen the greatest step so far recorded,
towards the abolition of cesspool drainage in this district. In 1954,
the Council decided that where possible cesspool drainage should
cease. With this in view, new sewers were planned in areas where
there were groups of cesspools and where it was reasonably practicable
to connect to outfalls.
At that time, properties not connected to main drainage
totalled 473. Since then several extensions have been effected to
the sewerage system, the largest being the scheme carried through
in North Cray during 1960. This accounted for the great marjority
of the 111 cesspools which were disconnected during the year.
Against this figure, it must be recorded that three new cesspools
were constructed in the same period. Two of them were to new
buildings where access to a sewer was not possible and the other
was part of an improvement to a piggery.

In a number of cases two or more properties drain into one
cesspool.
There are also a few with small private disposal plants or which
use chemical closets.
Further sewerage works are to be carried out in the Leesons
Hill area in 1961 and a further substantial decrease in cesspool
drainage is forecast.