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Streams and Water-Courses.
Turkey Street Brook and other streams in the District are
under the control of the Middlesex County Council, and observation
is also kept on them by your Sanitary Staff, but no sources
of contamination were detected.
Drainage and Sewerage.
The populous parts of the District are all provided with sewers,
with outfall to Cuckoo Hall Farm, where it is dealt with by septic
tanks, filters and part by irrigation.
Two men are employed daily who devote their whole time to
the work of examining and flushing the sewers, and any defect
or obstruction found is immediately dealt with.
Closet Accommodation.
All the houses in the Urban portion of the District are supplied
with W.Cs. of various types, the majority being those of "washdown"
pattern. In the rural parts of the District the accommodation
consists of water-closets connected with cesspools, or earthclosets
or privies with movable receptacles. I am not aware of
any middens in the District.
Scavenging—Removal of House Refuse.
This work is carried out by the Council's own staff, a weekly
collection being made throughout the greater part of the District.
Part of the stuff collected is disposed of to brickmakers, and the
remainder taken to the Council's Depot at Carterhatch Lane, where
it is levelled and covered with earth.
Every week one man in the employ of the Council attends to
some few earth-closets in a rural part of the District.
There are only a few fixed ashpits left, the practice for some
years has been to require movable receptacles to be provided, and
where any house is found without this provision, the owner is
required to make it good.