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Since the treatment of the Greenford sewage by the means
of chlorine gas was adopted as a routine procedure in the middle
of last year complaints have almost ceased from this area. The
chlorine treatment has certainly kept in abeyance the production
of sulphuretted hydrogen which gave rise to the extremely unpleasant
and persistent odour which troubled the inhabitants in the vicinity.
Closet Accommodation.— Excepting in the undeveloped
portions of the Borough, namely, the northern portion of the Mount
Park Ward and the Greenford and Northolt Wards, the whole of
the houses are supplied with water closets, there being as a rule
one water closet for each house or part of a house let as a separate
tenement.

Work is steadily going on in getting the houses, fitted with
water closets, within a hundred feet of the sewer in the Northolt
and Greenford Wards connected up. With the construction of
new sewers in Northolt and Greenford a large number of the
cesspools will be abolished andsome of the pail-closets will be converted
into water-closets. It will be some years, however, before
all of the cesspools are abolished and all of the pail-closets are converted
because of the slow development of the areas in which the
houses are situated and the consequent delay in the construction
of sewers to serve them.