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The average quantity of refuse to be dealt with daily is 64
tons, the average weight per cubic yard being 7 cwts.
Earth Closets.
The night soil from the earth closets in the northern part of
the district is collected in a tumbler cart and deposited on
fields.
Cesspools.
Most of the cesspools of the district are emptied by the Council's
gully emptier at intervals of a month. Emptying at more frequent
intervals can be carried out at the expense of the occupier of the
premises. Complaints are still received from the occupants of
premises near the manholes of the sewers down which the contents
are deposited.
A number of houses receive habitation certificates in which
the drainage passes to cesspools which must be emptied by the
occupier, the applicant at the same time giving an undertaking
to connect up to the sewer, when laid. While this arrangement
is less objectionable now that a piped water supply has replaced
the wells previously used as a source of water, it cannot be maintained
that the practice is hygienic when carried out in respect of
a number of premises, most in close proximity one to another
and with little land available for disposing of the contents of the
cesspools.
Disinfection and Disinfestation.
For arrangements made for disinfection, see page 27 of Annual
Report, 1930.
Early in the current year terminal fumigation was abolished.
In its stead, reliance is placed on the steps taken by the householder
to deal in a satisfactory manner with those articles especially
liable to infection. Under the previously existing arrangement,
householders can have their bedding removed and stoved at the
Isolation Hospital at their own expense.
To meet the need for some provision to be made for helping
persons to eradicate scabies and also to have available arrangements
for the stoving of bedding after infection, proposals have
been made for incorporating in the new separation plant, where
steam would be available, a small cleansing station.