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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 three houses where pail-closets are still in existence.
Public Cleansing.
(a) Scavenging.
I am indebted to the Borough Engineer and Surveyor 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 over 74 miles. The staff engaged on this
work is : 2 foremen, 38 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 is divided into 38 beats and again into 2 divisions of
one foreman and 19 sweepers with one collecting vehicle to each division.
Each sweeper has a beat of approximately 1½ to 2 miles, and a collecting
vehicle visits each sweeper on his beat 4 times daily. The street refuse
is emptied directly into the vehicle, which conveys the refuse directly to
the disposal shoot. By adopting this collecting system a great deal of
time is saved, as formerly each sweeper took his own sweepings to a depot
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 3 times weekly under the old system.
During the past year the Council installed as near as possible a dustless
system of emptying the street refuse barrows, for this purpose purchasing
two new lorries with special bodies and 80 new bins to suit the bodies;
the refuse now being emptied into ihe vehicles without complaints of dust
escaping.