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through filter beds and on the land. For the latter purpose an
additional 14 acres have been brought into use, the total area of
land subject to sewage treatment now amounting to 75 acres.
During the year the London County Council have been
approached, with a view to their taking the whole of the sewage
of Willesden into their sewers. There appears to be a reasonable
prospect of a scheme with this object being adopted, and no more
satisfactory solution of the sewage problem of the Brent area
could be hoped for. The sewage of the whole district would then
be taken into the metropolitan sewers.
COLLECTION OF HOUSE REFUSE.
In the accompanying tables are given the data relating to
refuse removal. This is an item of Public Health administration
which is at once one of the most costly, and, since it touches every
household in the district, one of the most important of the
Council's responsibilities.
House refuse is removed by contract, the terms of the contract
requiring the collection of domestic refuse from each house in the
district at least once in each week.
The tables are compiled from returns made to the Chief
Sanitary Inspector each morning by the Dust Inspectors, under
whose immediate supervision the house refuse is collected.
The data in my posession have enabled me to give the figures
relating to the removal of refuse as far back as 1896.