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one water closet for each house, or part of a house let as a separate
tenement. In the Greenford and Mount Park Wards there are
49 houses with water closets drained to cesspools and 38 with pail
closets. Two of the houses with pail closets are within 100 feet
of a sewer and notices have been served requiring them to be
replaced by water closets drained to the public sewer.
Scavenging.—Excepting in the Greenford Ward scavenging
is carried out directly by the Council, the house refuse being transported
to the two destructors at South Haling and Hanwell. The
Hanwell destructor is in course of extension so that it can deal
adequately with all the refuse from the area previously imperfectly
served by it. Scavenging at Greenford is being carried out by a
contractor, the refuse being conveyed to a disused gravel pit outside
the Borough. Sanitary dustbins are provided throughout the
Borough, the Greenford Ward having in this respect come into line
with the rest of the district.
Smoke Abatement.—As there are very few factories in the
Borough it is seldom that any action is called for in abating nuisance
from smoke. During the year representations had to be made on
four occasions regarding the abatement of nuisance from smoke :
from a bakery, from two laundries and from a carriage works.
At all four carelessness in stoking was the cause of the complaint.
This was quickly remedied by the management in each case.
Premises and Occupations which can be Controlled by
Byelaws and Regulations.—There are no common lodging-houses
in the Borough and there are no Byelaws with respect to houses
let-in-lodgings.
There are only two offensive trades carried on in the Borough'
that of fish-frying which is conducted in 19 separate premises
and that of tallow melter, which is carried on at a factory in the
Greenford Ward. The tallow factory has been completely reconstructed
during the year, and the whole of the machinery or apparatus
is of such construction and the trade is conducted in such a manner
as to reduce offensive odours to a minimum. The fish-frying
premises are all fitted with suitable frying apparatus and there was
no occasion for action with regard to any of them during the year.