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is being tipped about the absence of cover and the height to which the
tip was being raised.
Lack of available sites will necessitate alternative arrangements
being made for the disposal of the refuse, which amounts to over 1,000
tons a week.
Street Cleansing.
The lengths of highways repairable by the public are the nine miles
of roads directly maintained by the Middlesex County Council, the 36
miles of main roads maintained by the district council under agreement
with the Middlesex County Council, and the 163 miles of district roads.
The pre-war practice was for the main roads and shopping centres to
be cleaned twice daily, the main district roads once daily, the general
district roads three times a week, cul-de-sacs twice weekly and private
streets once a week. Unfortunately shortage of labour has prevented the
service being restored to this level, the present practice being a daily
cleaning of the roads of all shopping areas (about 50 miles); the sweeping
two or three times a week of some 50 to 60 miles of roads of the Council
housing estates, where schools are sited and the approaches to recreation
grounds; and once weekly sweeping of the other 120 miles of roads. Some
15 miles of the County Council main roads and roads to shopping centres are
swept daily; the remaining 200 miles of roads can be done only weekly.
The sweepings are collected in orderly barrows and are deposited on the
tips.
During the summer months the channels of the roads of all
shopping areas and congested thoroughfares and the roads used as
playgrounds are sprayed twice daily.
PUBLIC CONVENIENCES.
Apart from those in the Recreation Grounds, there are public conveniences
at Havelock Place, the Car Park at Station Road, Pinner Road,
at North Harrow and Peel Road, and there is a urinal in Northolt Road.
Because of the use made by the public of the urinal at the Red Lion Public
House, Pinner, the Council agreed to be responsible for its cleansing. In
consideration of a lump sum payment by the Council, the convenience
provided and maintained by the London Transport Executive at
South Harrow Station is available to the public. Arrangements were in
train for conveniences to be provided in many more of the Recreation
Grounds, but the onset of the war interfered with this programme and
with the erection of a new convenience in Whitchurch Lane. Conveniences
are required in many parts of the district, but none perhaps
more urgently than to serve the Kenton shopping area or Pinner Village.
SWIMMING BATHS.
There are two open-air swimming baths in the district, one at Charles
Crescent, Honeybun Estate, Harrow, and the other at Christchurch
Avenue, Wealdstone. The former, constructed in 1923, measures
165 feet by 75 feet, with a depth of 7 feet to 3 feet 6 inches. The water,
after being filtered, is treated by chlorination. Dressing accommodation,
shower and foot baths and sanitary conveniences are provided. The