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Staircases repaired or renewed 2
Drains and sewage disposal plants cleared 16
Drains and sewage disposal plants repaired or reconstructed 22
Inspection chambers repaired or reconstructed 15
Soil or vent pipes repaired or renewed 1
Gullies, channels and fenders repaired or renewed 13
Water Closet pans, fittings, repaired or renewed 16
Cesspools abolished, connections to sewer 16
Storage cisterns, cleaned, repaired or renewed 11
Accumulations removed 8
Dustbins provided 2
Fireplaces adapted or renewed 80
DRAINAGE.
Owing to the poor state of the sewage disposal systems of six houses
in Arkley, which were deemed to be public sewers within the meaning of
the Act, the Council, after the necessary investigations, decided to take
over part of a private sewer in Arkley Lane and made a declaration that the
defined length should vest in the local authority as a public sewer.
Plans are being drawn for the laying of a short length of public
sewer to connect thereto and for the connection of the drains of the six
houses.
The department arranged and supervised the repair of a frontage
drain by agreement with the owner. The costs, with interest, will be
recovered by instalments from the owner.
HOUSING.
During the year, no Demolition Orders were made but one house was
demolished, and one made fit, both of which were the subject of earlier
Demolition Orders.
There still remain two tenants to be rehoused from two houses the
subject of Demolition Orders made prior to this year.
No cases of overcrowding, as defined by the Housing Act, have come to
our notice during the year.
In the oase of a house on which repairs had been started but
apparently abandoned, use was made of Section 27 of the Public Health Act
1961 , to secure progression of the work particularly externally where piles
of bricks and rubble, rusting scaffolding etc., presented an unsavoury
picture.