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SECTION V.— SANITARY ADMINISTRATION.
Staff.— At the end of the year there were on the staff of the Sanitary Section
of the Department one Chief Sanitary Inspector, ten male inspectors, one female
inspector, and two part-time female inspectors.
Water Supply.— The water supply of the Borough is under the control of
the Metropolitan Water Board, and no complaints were received as to the quality of
the water supply during the year.
Removal and Disposal of Refuse.— House refuse is collected and disposed of
by direct labour in Woolwich, and is under the control of the Works Committee of
the Council. Collection is made once weekly with the exception of a small central
area, where a twice-weekly collection is made. All refuse is disposed of by burning
at the Council's Destructor, White Hart Lane. All tins are salved, treated in a
hydraulic press and sold, but during the year it was difficult to find markets. The
clinker is mixed with bitumen and used for surfacing certain roads in the Borough.
Most of the dustbins in the Borough are of the moveable pattern; it was found
necessary to take action for the renewal of 469 dustbins.
During the year the London County Council formulated draft by-laws dealing,
inter alia, with the removal and disposal of house refuse. By-law No. 7, which dealt
with the construction of collection vehicles, specified the use of a vehicle with a lowloading
line. The Council were of opinion that it would be premature to limit
the work to vehicles with a low-loading line in view of the changing conditions in
the construction of dust collection vehicles, and suggested that the by-law should be
amended by deleting the words in italic:—
"Use a suitable vehicle having a low-loading line or a suitable truck, carnage,
boat, or barge or other vessel, constructed of or lined with metal or other equally
suitable impervious material, and furnished with a suitable close-fitting cover so as
to prevent the escape of the contents thereof and any dust or effluvium nuisance
therefrom."
By-law No. 10, which dealt with the collection of house refuse, specified a twiceweekly
collection. The Council thought that this by-law should be amended to give
local authorities power, by resolution, to exclude from the operation of the by-law,
any part of their area in which they consider a twice-weekly collection not to be
necessary for the time being.