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4 LEGAL ACTION. Nuisance Orders were obtained against
the owners of two fiats, in respect of leaking roofs, requiring the work
to be carried out within twenty-eight days. The owners were fined
£5 0s. 0d. and the Council were awarded 3 guineas costs in each case.
A hawker was fined £2 0s. 0d. with one guinea costs, for selling food
from a vehicle not registered under Section 11 of the Middlesex
County Council Act, 1950.
In respect of offences under food legislation, legal proceedings
were taken on four occasions. The manufacturers of a jar of Piccalilli
containing a piece of glass were fined, and a dairy company was fined
for selling milk in a dirty bottle. Two firms of bakers were prosecuted
for selling loaves of bread, one containing a wood-louse and the second
contaminated by grease.
5. INFORMATION BOOKLET. Details of the community
services and the social services provided locally, both by statutory
and voluntary authorities, were collected and compiled into a booklet
which was duplicated in the Department and distributed to those
individuals and organisations within the area who may have need of
the information. The booklet must have been found of value as it
was most cordially accepted and we received in the Department
numerous letters of congratulation and expressions of thanks for
copies.
6. WATER SUPPLY. The piped water supply of the
Borough is accepted largely from the mains of the Colne Valley
Water Company and has remained satisfactory both in quantity and
quality. A very small part of the southern end of the Borough is
supplied by the Rickmansworth and Uxbridge Valley Water Company
and this supply also has been of satisfactory quality and adequate
quantity.
In the Colne Valley area, occasionally, at the summit of various
hills, a lack of pressure has been noted. It has been very rare for
the supply to fail, but complaints have from time to time been
received that the supply cisterns have failed to replenish in residences
situated near the summit of Barn Hill, and similarly at times supply
cisterns have become depleted where they are situated in the roof
space of lofty flats on the slopes of the hill. This defect in supply
has been for a matter of some hour or two during peak demand
and has never occasioned more than inconvenience.
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