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SECTION C.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE
AREA.
Water Supply.
The Leyton area is supplied from the mains of the Metropolitan
Water Board.
Rivers and Streams.
See Annual Report for year 1932.
Closet Accommodation.
There are nine houses where pail-closets are still in existence.
Public Cleansing.
(a) Scavenging.
I am indebted to the Borough Surveyor and Cleansing Superintendent
for the following particulars relative to Street Cleansing:—
The total mileage of streets cleansed by this section of the Borough
Engineer's Department Staff is 74 miles. The staff engaged on this work
is : 2 foremen, 40 sweepers, 4 men and 2 electric collecting vehicles : and one
mechanical road sweeping and collecting machine with a driver and 2
attendants.
The system used in Leyton is known as the "beat system"
The Borough was divided into 40 beats and again into 2 divisions
of one foreman and 20 sweepers with one collecting vehicle to each division.
Each sweeper has a beat of approximately 1 miles, and during each day
the collecting vehicle visits each sweeper on his beat 4 times. The street
refuse is then emptied diroctly into the vehicle, which then conveys the
refuse directly to the disposal shoot. By adopting this collecting system
a great deal of time is saved, as formerly each man took his own sweepings
to a Corporation Yard where they were dumped and collected later in the
day. The time saved is spent by the sweepers on their work, and the effect
is that all roads in Leyton are now swept not less than 3 times weekly, and
where necessary 4 and 5 times weekly as against 2 and the worst roads
3 times weekly.
During the coming year the Council are installing as near as possible
a dustless system of emptying the street refuse barrows, and is purchasing
two new lorries with special bodies and 80 new bins to suit the
bodies. When these vehicles are put into service the refuso can be
emptied into the vehicles without complaints of dust escaping.