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Complaints have continued to be received regarding the smell
from the Greenford Works, although they have not been so numerous
or so insistent as in previous years. The treatment by means of
chlorine has kept the production of sulphuretted hydrogen down
to a minimum and certainly has improved matters, although the
continued overloading will prevent these works, until they are
extended, from being conducted in a way which will reduce smell
to a minimum. The proposed extension should go a considerable
way in effecting improved conditions there.
Closet Accommodation.—Excepting in the undeveloped
portions of the Borough, namely, in the northern portion of the
Mount Park Ward and in 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.
The following Table gives the number of pail-closets, the
number of cesspools and the number of water closets connected
therewith, etc., in the areas mentioned, at the end of 1929. Alongside
the totals are indicated the numbers at the end of the previous year.

Scavenging.—The whole of the Borough is now scavenged
directly by the Council, the house refuse being transported to the
two destructors, at South Ealing and at Hanwell. The Hanwell
destructor, since its extension, has been able to deal adequately
with the whole of the work which it is called upon to do. The