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The sludge from the tanks is collected in a sludge well,
discharged thence by automatic ejectors (actuated by air
pressure) upon the higher part of the farm, is there dried in
small lagoons, and afterwards ploughed into the land.
The whole of the new works have been designed and
carried out by the Council's Engineer and Surveyor, C. J.
Jenkin, M.I.C.E.
The working of the installation is tested by frequent
analyses of the effluent, and during the year 59 samples were
analysed.
New Streets and Buildings.
The rate at which the district is growing may be gathered
from the fact that at the last Census the number of occupied
houses was considerably more than twice that at the 1901
Census. Many new streets are laid out every year, and their
construction supervised by the Surveyor in order that they
may be made up in a proper manner before being adopted by
the Council.
The erection of new buildings is also supervised by the
Surveyor's Department.
Housing.
There appears to be no lack of accommodation to meet the
needs of most of the working classes in Finchley. It is true
that many of the newer small houses are only obtainable at
rents which are somewhat beyond the means of ordinary
artisans, but the difficulty seems to have been solved by the
landlords letting off some of the houses in tenements. This
occupation of ordinary dwelling houses by more than one
family is certainly open to many objections, but every effort
is made to induce the owners to provide reasonably adequate
sanitary accommodation for all the families housed.