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effluent of a soap factory was found in a field on our boundary
pn December 31st. As this ditch ultimately drains into a small
stream outside the district, this source of pollution was evidently
very dangerous, and your attention was called ???it in my report.
You decided to take immediate action, and the factory has since
been removed.
Drainage and Sewerage.
The district is well sewered and except for a very few outlying
houses, all are connected with the main drainage. There are 3
sewage farms for the disposal of sewage; one at Pinner, one at
Grea,t Stanmore, and one for Edgware and Little Stanmore. The
farms do their work effectively; samples of the effluent have been
taken from time to time and are found quite satisfactory. The
Harrow Weald sewage is treated at Wealdstone by arrangement with the
Wealdstone Urban District Council.
The sewer in Cornwall Road gave way - it has been remedied.
A slight extension of the sewer in Pinner Hill Road was found
necessary for the draining of new houses on Pinner Hill site. New
sewers have been laid for the new houses in Harrow Weald, Great
Stanmore and Little Stanmore, also on the Grange Estate, Pinner,
which is ready for development.
Closet Accommodation.
The large majority of houses in the district have water closets
which connect with the main sewer: but there are several instances,
notably the Upper Square, Great Stanmore, where the closet
arrangements, though connected with the sewer, are both inadequate
and detrimental to the morals and decency of the people. Two
water closets in this open square, with no attempt at privacy,
supplying the needs of six cottages grouped around them, ere a
blot on the civilization of 1921.
With reference to another group of six cottages in Great
Stanmore, which I mentioned in last year's report as having privy
middens owing to their distance from any sewer, the emptying and
cleansing of these places has now been satisfactorily 'settled.
Scavenging.
The collection and disposal of house refuse has been carried out
by contractors throughout the district, except in Pinner, where
you decided to do the work with your own men and horses. This
arrangement has proved satisfactory, and complaints from this
Parish are now rare.
There have been very few complaints from Harrow Weald, but
on the other hand in Sdgware, Little Stanmore and Great Stanmore,
considerable trouble was experienced with the men during March and
April. Complaints were very numerous at that time.
Almost every house in the district has a portable dustbin,
with proper covering.
The costs of scavenging in the district are as follows
Pinner £1366. 8 0.
Harrow Weald £283 0 0
Edgware & Little Stanmore £648 0 0
Great Stanmore £394. 0. 0.
The refuse is tipped at Pinner and Great Stanmore Sewage Farms,
at Bacon Lane and Harrow Weald brickfields; it is there sorted and
the residue burnt. No complaints have been made as to this disposal.
Sanitary Inspection.
The sanitary inspection of the district has made good progress
during the year. The total number of inspections made during the
year numbered 1286. Inspections under the Housing Acts numbered
336; preliminary notices under the Housing Acts 124; Statutory
Notices under the same Acts 35; Inspections re Infectious Disease 85.
A cottage at Edgware was closed voluntarily by the Owner after
receiving notice to do certain repairs; two cottages in Little
Stanmore were also intended to be closed by the Owners as the roofs
were unsafe, and they would not do the repairs; owing to shortage