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Borough Surveyor continue to be carried out with the
usual care and completeness. Some alteration has
been made in the system of collecting " house refuse,"
and with success, for so satisfactorily is this performed
that, notwithstanding the 11,000 calls which are made
weekly, a complaint is rarely received. At an early
period it is intended to improve the handling of this
refuse at the Destructor Works, which will fully
justify the Borough Surveyor's proposal.
With regard to the treatment of the sewage it is
gratifying to know that the system carried out for so
many years by your Borough Surveyor is a continued
success; and the " Finding of the Royal Commission
on Sewage Disposal " justifies work done at the
Ealing Works, and proves that it is practicable to
deal effectively with sewage, and obtain a good effluent
suitable for discharge into flowing water, without
having subjected it to land filtration, etc. In these
days of change, your Borough Surveyor may feel
proud of the fact that the process he has used for
forty years at your works at South Ealing continues
an absolute success. I may add that the " bacteria
treatment " is carried out at a minimum cost, owing to
the material used in the filter beds being clinker from
the destructors. The highly necessary work of flushing
the sewers continues to be systematically performed,
and doubtless the absence of objectionable
and harmful effluvia arising from them is greatly the
result of this cleansing.
Again, the "dust question" calls for a few
remarks, it being of great importance from the sanitary
point of view. Apart from its discomfort, much
danger to health exists in connection with it, owing
to the "micro-organisms" and other hurtful
suspended matter it contains. It has been calculated
that the number of dust particles in a cubic inch of
fresh air varies from about 2,000 in the open country
to upwards of 3,000,000 in towns, while in inhabited
rooms the number may be ten times as great as that