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Negotiations have been proceeding for years with a view to
preventing this trouble and at last a procedure has been laboriously
evolved which should result in general agreement between the
Authorities concerned and subsequently in the required remedial
works.
CLOSET ACCOMMODATION.
It is the policy of the Council to abolish pail closets and cesspools,
substituting water closets connected to the public sewers.
During the year 5 properties were connected to the sewer and 11
cesspools abolished. By 1958 only 6 pail closets remained, the
contents of which are disposed of in their gardens by the occupiers,
and some 101 cesspools, most of which are situated in outlying
parts of the District. Eight years ago there were 17 pail closets
and 180 cesspools, while in 1933 there were over 100 closets and
about 530 cesspools, mostly in the outlying parts incorporated in
the District as a result of the review of the Boundary.
PUBLIC CLEANSING.
The Council arranges for a weekly collection of all house
refuse, but makes a charge for the removal of trade refuse and for
cesspool emptying. The latter provides for the first 12 loads a year
being removed at 7/6d. a load from any private dwelling (15/- for
each subsequent load) and at £1.5.0 a load from any commercial
premises.
Part of the house refuse is incinerated at the Kenley Disposal
Plant and part is tipped and covered with soil. The cesspool contents
are emptied into the sewers.
CLEAN AIR.
By virtue of an Order made by the Minister of Housing and
Local Government, certain provisions of the Clean Air Act, 1956
came into force on the 31st December, 1956, dealing with the
installation of new furnaces, the height of chimneys, smoke control
areas, research, publicity and the making of building byelaws.
The Council gave consideration to these matters and decided
to take no action at the present time to establish a "Smoke Control
Area" within the Urban District or to make byelaws requiring the
provision in new buildings of appliances capable of burning
smokeless fuels.
This District is, of course, fortunate in that little or no nuisance
is experienced from the small number of industrial chimneys in the
area.
MINES AND QUARRIES ACT, 1954.
This Act came into force on the 1st January, 1957 and Section
151 provides that the following shall be deemed to be a statutory
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