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SANITARY ADMINISTRATION.
List of Local Acts, Adoptive Acts, Bye-laws and local Regulations in force in the District, with
date of adoption.
Local Acts:—
Willesden Local Board Act, 1876. Royal Assent 27.6.1876.
Willesden Local Board Act, 1887. Royal Assent 8.8.1887.
Willesden Sewerage Act, 1896. Royal Assent 14.8.1896.
*Willesden Urban District Council Act, 1903. Royal Assent 11.8.1903.
Adoptive Acts:—
*Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, Part III. Adopted 11.11.1890.
*Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, Parts II., III., IV., and X. Adopted
24.1.1911.
Baths and Washhouses Acts, 1846-99. Adopted 14.2.1899.
Burial Acts, 1852-1900.
Public Libraries Acts, 1892-1901. Adopted 19.2.1891.
Bye-laws:—
*Common Lodging Houses (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 80). Adopted 14.10.1879.
*Houses Let in Lodgings (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 90). Adopted 8.11.1892.
*Slaughter Houses (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 169 and Towns Improvement Clauses
Act, 1847, s. 128). Revised and adopted 27.9.1921.
*Prevention of Nuisances (Public Health Act, 1875, s.44). Revised and adopted 13.7.1922
Bye-laws:—
New Streets and Buildings (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 157 and Public Health Acts
Amendment Act, 1890, s. 23). Adopted 16.10.1906.
New Sewers (Willesden Local Board Act, 1887). Adopted 9.10.1888.
Pleasure Grounds (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 164). Adopted 28.1.1896.
*Drainage of Buildings (Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, s. 23). Adopted
16.10.1906.
*Rag and Bone Dealer (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 113). Adopted 29.9.1908.
Local Regulations:—
*Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops (Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order, 1885, s. 13),
Revised, and came into force 1.8.1923.
Small Holdings and Allotment Act, 1908. Adopted 25.11.1913.
*Relating to underground sleeping rooms, Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909,
s. 17 (7). Adopted 23.9.1913.
* These are administered wholly or partly by the Health Committee.
The unstarred are administered by other Committees of the Council.
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area.
Water.—The whole of the water supply of Willesden is derived from the mains of the Metropolitan
Water Board. The service is constant and the water of excellent quality.
The total number of houses in Willesden is 24,654, and all are provided with a supply direct
to each house.
Quite 50 per cent, of the better class tenement houses have a supply separate for each tenement.
A supply for drinking purposes direct off the rising main is year by year becoming more general. The
regulations of the Metropolitan Water Board, however, require each house to be provided with a
storage cistern.
There are still a large number of houses occupied by several families in the older parts of the
district with only one draw off tap for water situated either in the basement or upon the ground floor.
Rivers and Streams.—The River Brent forms the Northern and Western boundary of the
district. The Mitchell Brook, a tributary of the Brent, is a small stream running in a westward
direction through the district. A large sheet of water known as the Welsh Harp is formed at the
extreme Northern boundary by the damming up of the Brent, thus forming a reservoir about a mile
in length and about a quarter of mile in width, or 160 acres in extent. The boundary line between
Willesden and Kingsbury Urban Districts passes through the length of this reservoir, leaving an area
of about 68 acres of it in Willesden.
No pollution of any of these waters in the Willesden area came under the notice of the Health
Department during the year.
Drainage and Sewerage.—With the exception of a few isolated factories and other outlying
buildings situated on the northern heights of Dollis Hill, the whole of Willesden is drained and sewered
on the water carriage system.