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Scavenging Removal of Home Refuse.
This work is carried out by the Council's own staff, under
the direction of the Sanitary Inspector, 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 Depots at Cartel hatch Lane and Old Road,
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 recepticles to be provided, and
where any house is found without this provision, the owner is
required to make it good.
Cesspools.
The Council has provided suitable vans and pumps, and undertakes
the emptying of cesspools on the application of householders,
a small charge being made for each emptying, and they are all kept
under observation.