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Number of cesspools abolished and main
drainage provided during the year 81
Number of houses with pail closets
converted to cesspool drainage 9
Number of new houses erected with
cesspool drainage 000 22
Number of loads removed from cesspools
on private requisitioned and council
properties (from 786 premises In all) 4,156
The above table is worthy of attention. The good feature
is that during the year 81 cesspools on the line of
sewer were converted to main drainage0 This is the highest
figure reached for any of the five years beginning 1948.
If this rate of progress can. be maintained1 we shall have
abolished all cesspools on the line of present sewers by
1957o A ray of hope in a dark picture.
The bad' features of the table are:-
(1) That there are no less than 2,243 cesspools not on
line of any sewer and0 owing to financial restrictions,
there has been no extension of sewer carried out during
the year.
(2) That of the 2,549 cesspools only 786 premises called
for the service of cesspool emptying, the average number
of loads per cesspool being only five throughout the yeac
This means that percolation into the chalk sub-strata is
practically universal.
(3) That 22 new houses were erected during the year with
cesspool as the means of household drainage - none of
these were on line of sewer0 It is hoped that these 22
cesspools have remained watertight.
In the five years 1948/52, 274 cesspools have been
abolished while at the same time 97 new houses have been
erected with cesspools.