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Drainage and Sewerage.—Excepting in the undeveloped
portions of the Borough, namely, the most northerly part
of the Mount Park Ward and in the Greenford and Northolt
Wards, the whole of the houses are supplied with water closets
and are drained to the sewerage system. The few houses still
unconnected to the sewers in the Greenford Ward received attention.
Nine were connected during the year and the remainder will be
dealt with as circumstances permit.
Six houses in the Northolt Ward were connected up and this
practically completes the work until there is an extension of the
sewers. Work is in progress towards the construction of an automatic
pumping station to receive the drainage from 36 bungalows,
which will shortly be passed for occupation, and also from ten
other houses. The sewage will be pumped through a rising main
to the head of the existing sewer in Church Road.
There are five separate sewage disposal works in the Borough,
situated at North Ealing (Perivale), South Ealing, Hanwell, Greenford
and Northolt.
In view of the West Middlesex Sewerage Scheme, extensions
to the existing works were restricted as far as possible. The work
on the additional filter beds at Greenford was completed in the
early part of the year and an extension of the filter beds at Northolt
is in progress.
Closet Accommodation.—Excepting in the undeveloped
portions of the Borough already alluded to, the whole of the houses
are supplied with water closets, there being one or more water
closets 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 1931 :—