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Muswell Stream and the Moselle Brook, and finally discharged
into the River Lea.
The public sewers are periodically flushed and cleansed by the
Surveyor's Staff, a gang of men being continually employed throughout
the year on this work.
The length of sewers, soil and surface water, is, roughly,
102 miles.
Closet Accommodation.
Practically all the houses in the District are connected to the
public sewers, the closets being arranged on the water carriage
system, the only exceptions being two factories and two cottages
which are situated on the extreme Eastern boundary of the District,
a part yet to be developed.
This portion of the District forms part of the Council's Housing
and Town Planning Scheme, and negotiations are now proceeding
with the London County Council for the development of what is
now vacant land, when proper sewers will be provided.
Scavenging.
The collection of house refuse is undertaken by direct labour
so far as the dustmen are concerned, but the carmen and horses are
provided by a contractor, the vans being the property of the Council.
All the refuse is carted to the destructor, erected almost in
the centre of the District, in Western Road.
The Refuse Destructor is the Heenan and Froude type, and is
well able to destroy, for many years, all the refuse that will be
brought from the District, the Council having wisely provided two
sets of cells when the destructor was erected.