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32
Closet Accommodation.
All the houses in the Urban portion of the District are supplied
with W.C.'s 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 receptables. I am not aware of
any middens in the District.
Every week one man in the employ of the Council att nds
some few earth-closets in a rural part of he District.
REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL OF HOUSE AND TRADE REFUSE.
At the beginning of the year the Council possessed the
following vehicles for the collection and disposal of refuse :
3 " S.D." Freighters.
3 Electric Vehicles.
1 Tuke and Bell Barrier Type Petrol Vehicle.
The three electric vehicles are not of the " dustless " type.
Towards the end of the year one electric vehicle had to be
taken out of service as being no longer capable of repair and the
Council determined to purchase two " S.D." Dustless Freighters,
one to replace the disused electric vehicle, and one as an extra
vehicle to cope with the increased work of the District.
This means that the Council still possesses two unsatisfactory
vehicles.
At the time of writing this report one of these is already out
of commission, and in the estimates for 1934 is included an item
for the purchase of a vehicle for this one.
The last remaining electric vehicle will probably have to
be taken out of service at the end of 1934, and the Council will
be, by then, rid of the old type of refuse collection vehicles, and
will possess a complement of vehicles of a satisfactory nature.
The whole of the refuse of Enfield was deposited on Brown's
brickfields during 1933, and no complaint in connection with the
disposal of refuse there was received during the course of the year.
Part of Brown's brickfield has now been raised to a satisfactory
level, and covered with a suitable quantity of earth and
is being used for allotments.