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Slaughter Houses, March 6th, 1884. (Added: Humane
Slaughtering of Animals, 1922).
New Streets and Buildings, 23rd July, 1925.
Byelaws under Section 26 (1) of the Public Health Acts
(Amendment) Act, 1890. June 20th, 1907.
Tents, Vans, Sheds, etc., under the Housing of the Working
Classes Act, 1885. July 2nd, 1907.
Prevention of keeping Animals on any premises so as to be
injurious to Health. July 15th, 1910.
Regulations.
Communications between Drains and Sewers, Section 21, Public
Heath Act, 1875. October 8tli, 1908.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
Water.—The Greenford Ward is supplied with water by the
Rickmansworth and Uxbridge Valley Water Company, while
the rest is supplied by the Metropolitan Water Board. A complaint
was received with regard to the condition of the water supplied to
a range of houses in Greenford Ward, but this was found to be due
to a length of piping which formed a dead end in which the water
became stagnant and got coloured with rust from the pipes. On
the extension of this pipe to supply other houses in course of erection
the cause of the complaint disappeared.
Rivers and Streams.—When the extension of the Borough
took place in October, 1926, numerous complaints were received
regarding the condition of the ditches and streams in the Greenford
Ward. Since then as a result of energetic action, which resulted in
a large amount of new drainage works involving the abolition of
cesspools which overflowed into the ditches and streams, such a
marked improvement has been effected that not a single complaint
was received during the year. The chief source of pollution of the
main stream, which runs through the ward and which was formerly
a stinking stream of almost inky blackness, was from the washings
of the tallow factory. These washings were diverted into the
main sewer in the early part of the year and since then the water
has returned to something approaching reasonable purity.