View report page

56
SECTION H.
REFUSE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL.
Mr. Crowe reports:—
During the year, regular weekly collections of household refuse
(fortnightly in the rural parts of the district) has been maintained with
only slight disturbances at Bank Holiday periods.
Two new side-loading refuse collecting vehicles were purchased
during the year, replacing outworn vehicles. The Council now have
a fleet of twelve vehicles of the same make engaged on refuse collection.
The number of men (including the foreman) engaged on the work
is forty-one.
The approximate weight of the refuse collected is fifty tons
daily and this is disposed of by means of controlled tipping. The tip
at Downe, which was first used in April, 1940, is rapidly reaching the
final levels and a report was submitted to the Public Health Committee
in the early part of the year regarding another site. At the time of
writing this report, the site has not been obtained by agreement and a
compulsory purchase order is being applied for.
Pig food was collected three times each week from 'communal
street bins and daily from a few shops and canteens. During the year,
a total of four hundred and ten tons, eight hundredweights of pig food
was sold to pig-keepers for £1,787 9s. 2d,