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difficulty is now being experienced in finding suitable
shoots owing to the growth of the district, and the
Council have under consideration the provision of a
shoot abutting on land at the Stanmore Sewage Farm,
for the depositing of the refuse from the parishes of
Edgware and Little Stanmore.
The Council do not collect shop or trade refuse,
but permission is given to shopkeepers and others to
take the refuse to the shoots at their own expense.
At the present time the dust-carts are fitted with
tarpaulin covers to prevent the dust being blown about,
in theory excellent; but unfortunately the dustmen continually
neglect to make use of them, so that generally
they are in effect open carts. For this reason, amongst
others, I think that the time has come for the Council
to seriously consider the question of undertaking the
work by direct means rather than through the contract
system.
Sanitary Inspection.
A useful year's work has been done, the total
number of inspections being 2,198. In these are included
inspections of slaughter houses, cow sheds,
dairies and milkshops, factories and workshops, food
shops, and inspections for removal of house refuse on
complaint. Ninety-eight inspections were made of
premises after the occurrence of infectious disease. The
number of informal notices (letters and verbal requests)
was 456, 142 of which were entered tinder the Housing
Acts. With few exceptions the notices have been complied
with. Those not yet complied with will be
dealt with when the housing question becomes easier.
1,803 re-inspeotions and miscellaneous visits were paid.
Statistical Tables of the year's work are appended.
Smoke Abatement.
This district not being an industrial area, there is
not much trouble with smoke nuisances. Five cases
were dealt with satisfactorily.
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