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Bye-laws :—
*Common Lodging Houses (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 80). Revised and adopted 10.1.35.
*Houses Let in Lodgings (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 90). Revised and Adopted
26.7.1927.
*Slaughter Houses (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 169, and Towns Improvement Clauses
Act, 1847, s. 128). Revised and adopted 10.1.35.
*Prevention of Nuisances (Public Health Act, 1875, 5. 44). Revised and adopted 10.1.35.
New Streets and Buildings (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 157, and Public Health Acts
Amendment Act, 1890, s. 23). Revised and adopted 1.5.28. Amended and allowed
22.5.1930.
New Sewers (Willesden Local Board Act, 1887). Adopted 9.10.1888.
Pleasure Grounds (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 164). Adopted 28.1.1896.
*Rag and Bone Dealer (Public Health Act, 1875, s. 113). Revised and adopted 10.1.35.
*For the Regulation of Black Smoke (Public Health (Smoke Abatement) Act, 1926, s. 2).
Adopted 22.5.30.
Local Regulations :—
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, and amended to conform with Section 18, Housing
Act, 1925.
* 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 water supply of Willesden is derived from the mains of the Metropolitan Water
Board and the Colne Valley Water Company. The service is constant and the water of excellent
quality.
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 a mile in width, or 160 acres in extent. The boundary line between
the Borough of Willesden and Wembley Urban District, 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.
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.
Public Cleansing.—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 Engineer's
Department.
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 Borough Engineer's Department collect refuse from all premises at least once weekly.
Public Cleansing, etc.—On the 31st July, 1936, the barging of refuse to tips outside the
district ceased and all house refuse is now tipped at Twyford, Willesden. The Council are now
considering the erection of a suitable disposal plant or the provision of some other efficient method of
treatment to be available as soon as this tip is exhausted, viz., in some two to three years time.
Drainage and Sewerage.—During the last twelve months the culverting of the Mitchell
Brook between Bridge Road and the Municipal Hospital and under Brentfield Road has been completed
and the sections through the Hospital Grounds and between Brentfield Road and the North Circular
Road are now in hand.
The last section of the Storm Relief Sewer in Brook Road and a length in Crest Road have also
been constructed.
Work on the extension of the sewers and surface water drains on section 2 of the Church End
Housing Scheme has now commenced and should be completed during 1937.
In connection with the drainage of the Twyford Area, the West Middlesex Main Sewer was
made available for use from the 1st April of this year and now takes a large trade effluent. The
bulk of the domestic soil sewage, however, discharges to the Wembley System prior to emptying into
the West Middlesex. A large portion of this area is to be retransferred to Ealing in April, 1937.