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BIRKBECK ESTATE, MILL HILL.
The roads on this Estate, Viz.: Birkbeck, Shakespeare, Milton,
Tennyson, Marion, Byron, and Victoria Roads, have been sewered
by the Council at the owners' expense.
All the houses, with the exception of about seven, have been
drained and connected with the new sewers, the old cesspool
system being abolished.
BURNT OAK SEWERAGE.
A contract has been entered into for the continuation of the
Low Level Sewerage system to Burnt Oak and Orange Hill, and
the work will be commenced at the beginning of the year.
SYSTEMATIC INSPECTION OF DISTRICT.
The whole district is now gradually undergoing a house to
house visitation by the Sanitary Inspector, and all sanitary defects
such as superficial bad drainage, defective dust-bins, water supply,
unhealthy and dirty rooms, etc., etc., are being rigidly enquired
into, and the necessary notices are at once sent to remedy such
defects. The Inspector again visits the houses after the termination
of the time stipulated in the notices to see if they have been
attended to, failing which the Council are undertaking the work
themselves and charging the cost to the proper persons. I feel
sure that already the Inspector has done a large amount of good
work, the number of notices served showing how necessary a
systematic inspection was needed. Appended will be found the
number of houses visited and the number of notices served, and
complaints remedied.
SEWAGE TREATMENT.
The contract with the International and Purification Company
having terminated in February, the Council undertook the treatment
of the sewage themselves. Additional land to the amount
of nineteen acres has been purchased at the request of the Local
Government Board, although at the present time it is quite