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Drainage and Sewerage.—Some important works of sewerage and drainage have been
carried out during the year as follows:—
(a) Reconstruction of Neasden Valley Main Sewer, £52,000.
(b) Kensal Rise Intercepting Sewer, £11,600.
(c) Culverting in of ditch at rear of Drayton Road, £2,100.
The above three schemes have been carried out with the assistance of grants from the Unemployment
Grants Committee.
Closet Accommodation.—All houses are supplied with closets on the water carriage system.
Each house has at least one water closet, and in the better class tenement house there is
generally a water closet provided on each floor.
Scavenging.—Since the year 1919-20, the Health Department has not been responsible for
the removal and disposal of house refuse, that work having been taken over by the Surveyor's
Department.
Every house in the district is called at once each week. Electrically operated vehicles are
used.
Quite 99 per cent. of the houses in the district are provided with movable receptacles.
Fixed receptacles in the older houses are rapidly decreasing in number, and during the next few
years should entirely disappear.
The disposal of house refuse is by contract. The refuse is collected by the Council and tipped
into barges on the Canal, one wharf being situated in the Harrow Road in the Metropolitan Borough
of Paddington, and the other one at Lower Place, Willesden. It is conveyed in barges down the
Canal, unloaded by the Contractor and deposited on land immediately adjoining the Canal, where
it is dealt with under the Controlled Tipping system.
Sanitary Inspection of the Area.
Tabular summary of the work of the Sanitary Department during the year and action taken under
the Public Health Acts, Housing Acts, etc.
Inspections:
Number of premises inspected on complaint 2,277
Number of premises inspected in connection with infectious diseases 63
Number of premises under periodical inspection 2,717
Houses inspected from House to House (Housing Acts) 876
For Certificates under the Rent Acts 7
Public House Urinals 343
Mews and Stables 526
Miscellaneous 203
Total number of inspections and re-inspections made 22,071
Action under Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restriction) Acts, 1920-25.
Number of applications received for Certificates 7
Number of Certificates granted 6
Action Taken (under Housing Acts and Health Acts):
Notice to Inspect (Section 127, Housing Act, 1925) 2,857
Cautionary or Intimation Notices Issued 2,867
Number complied with 2,326
Statutory Orders issued 221
Number complied with 161
Summonses served 5
Number of convictions obtained 5
Summonses withdrawn 0
„ dismissed 0
Houses Let in Lodgings (Tenement Houses):
Number registered under Bye-laws 0
Number of contraventions 0
Common Lodging Houses:
Number registered under Bye-laws 1
Number of Inspections made 8
Number of contraventions 1
Number remedied 1
Canal Boats used as Dwellings:
Number of contraventions of Regulations 0
Number remedied 1*
* Outstanding year 1930.