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SMOKE ABATEMENT.
The number of complaints received was slightly higher than the
number for 1934, and these were duly dealt with. There is almost a
complete absence of large chimney stacks in the District, and the
furnaces of the smaller factories and workshops have been generally
well kept.
There has been no diminution in the number of complaints arising
from the indiscriminate burning of trade and garden refuse, and greater
care will be necessary before the discomfort and nuisance arising therefrom
are suppressed. The Council has made special arrangements for
the disposal of trade and garden refuse at the rate of 6d. per bin, and,
to avoid the unnecessary pollution of the atmosphere in proximity to
dwelling houses, residents are urged in future to take fuller advantage
of the facilities offered, or alternatively, to dry garden refuse properly
before burning, if it cannot be buried. Books of twenty 6d. tickets can
be obtained from the Accountant, Council Offices, Purley, or single
fid. tickets can be had from the foreman scavenger. The Council also
undertakes, free of charge, the collection of waste paper, which if kept
clean and parcelled up will be collected apart from the house refuse.
RIVERS AND STREAMS.
All watercourses receive careful supervision, and during the year
it was not found necessary to take any action for nuisances arising
therefrom.
DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE.
There was no great extension of public sewers during the year.
Attention was directed to the abolition of isolated cesspools, 11 of which
ceased to exist, the drains of the respective premises being connected
to the public sewer. Two new houses were erected with drains connected
to new cesspools.
Towards the end of the year a length of 9in. sewer was laid from
Brighton Road to Church Dane Avenue, Hooley, through private land
to connect up with the sewers to be laid in Church Dane Avenue and
Church Lane Drive, Hooley.
Estate developers continued to lay sewers on private estates, and
some of these were taken advantage of by existing premises.
The disposal of the sewage of the District is dealt with by the County
Borough of Croydon and the West Kent Main Drainage Board.
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