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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
WATER
Details of the water supply for the district and of the steps taken
to ensure that the water supply is safe were set out in the Annual Report
for the year 1948.
The results of the analyses of samples taken throughout the year were
all satisfactory.
No complaints were received during the year about the quality or
the quantity of the water supply.
DRAINAGE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL
Particulars of the local arrangements were set out in the Annual
Report for 1948.
PUBLIC CLEANSING
Refuse Collection.
The same arrangements continued in force for the collection of
house refuse. Complaints still come in about the state of some of the
kitchen waste bins. It is hoped that the benefits which result from the
collection of this material are sufficient to warrant these arrangements
being made and to offset the nuisances to which some residents are
subjected.
Refuse Disposal.
These days, none of the house refuse collected in this district is
disposed of here, all being taken outside of the district to be tipped.
Street Cleansing.
The same general arrangements are made for the cleansing of the
streets of the district.
DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD
Burial Grounds.
Particulars of these were included in the Annual Report for 1948.
Cremation.
It is hoped that the Council will decide to provide and maintain
a crematorium. The objections to this method of disposing of the dead
seem to be diminishing and a steadily increasing number of bodies are
disposed of each year by these means. An authority with Harrow's
population and financial resources ought to be able to provide this service,
not only for those in this district, but for those in neighbouring areas.
Districts such as this, with only limited land now free for any purpose,
ought to take such steps as they can to ensure that the land required
for burial grounds is not obtained out of that which otherwise would be
put to health-giving purposes.