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Watercourses.—Bounds Green Brook and Pymmes Brook
remain in about the same condition. The periodical cleaning by the
Middlesex County Council helps to keep them from getting very foul,
but they are still much polluted owing to the discharge into them of
sewage effluents from neighbouring districts, and in dry weather they
are sometimes very offensive.
Housing of the Working Classes Act.—With regard
to the block of cottages in Tile Kiln Lane previously reported on as
condemned, one of these has been demolished, and the remainder are
being rendered more fit for habitation.
The condemned block of cottages at Church Hill, Winchrnore
Hill, are now empty and will be shortly demolished.
At Harwood^Yard, Winchrnore Hill, owing to representations
made to the owner, 4 cottages have been pulled down, and 3 good
cottages erected on the same site.
At Chase Side, Southgate, I inspected a block of old cottages,
and as a result the owner decided to demolish them during the
ensuing year, and erect a good class of property, probably shops, in
their place.
In view of the number of old cottages being pulled down in
different parts of the District to make room for villa and shop property,
the necessity for providing suitable dwellings under this Act
become more and more imperative, and I trust that you will not lose
sight of this important matter. As I have several times urged
before, there is no more useful or necessary sanitary measure you
could undertake.
Roads.—The following roads were made up during the year :—
Warwick Road, Stanley Boad, Highworth Road, and Union Road,
all in New Southgate.
I regret to state that the paving and draining of certain back
entrance ways to shops and premises in different parts of the District,
the necessity of which I have urged in my last three annual reports,
has not yet been done. It would appear that the difficulties which
the Council have met in dealing with this are so great that they
cannot be overcome. The necessity for doing it, however, still
remains.
Public Park.—The Council will shortly become the owners of