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works. Part of the Totteridge area drains to the Finchley Borough
sewers; in the outlying areas some properties are on cesspool drainage or
domestic sewage disposal plants, and a few only have pail closets.
A group of cottages at Glebe Lane were drained to a public sewer
comprised of an inadequate and inefficient disposal system which
continually gave rise to nuisance; this received sullage waters, soil
disposal being by way of pail closets emptied by the Council. A new
sewer was laid, equipped with dual electric pumps arranged to lift the
flow to the main sewer in the road. At the close of the year,
arrangements for the full use of these facilities were in hand, all except
one of the occupiers planning to add bathroom accommodation to their
houses, by way of Improvement Grant.
The occupiers of new houses erected in East View, during recent years,
had suffered severely through the inadequacy of the sewerage, both soil and
stormwater, at this point: heavy storm conditions produced backing up into
their drain inlets with consequent flooding. The provision of a relief
stormwater sewer has rectified the position.
Works in connection with a scheme for the sewerage of the Barnet Gate
Lane/Hendon Wood Lane area, together with the western end of Mays Lane,
were commenced at the end of the year. The new sewers will permit the
elimination of cesspools, disposal plants and the like, serving some fifty–
two houses and other premises, all of which have polluted the Dollis Brook
to a greater or lesser degree.
The long awaited East Middlesex trunk sewerage system will when it
displaces the Barnet Sewage Works complete the cleansing of the water of
the Dollis Brook in this district.
The deodorising plant at the Sewage Works has continued in operation,
as necessary. A small number of complaints of smell were received and
these were investigated.
SANITARY CONDITIONS AMD WATER SUPPLY OP SCHOOIS.
There are in the district fifteen schools administered by the South
Herts Divisional Education Committee, as listed on the next page.