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to be provided in connection with the provision of future public conveniences
so staffed; but that, owing to the possibility of damage thereto, the
Highways and Cleansing Committee do not favour the provision of
electric hot-air hand driers as suggested by the Public Health Committee.
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
Wealdstone bath, constructed in 1934, measures 165 feet by 75 feet, with
a depth of 8 feet 6 inches to 2 feet 6 inches; in addition, there is a shallow
semi-circular beginners' pool. Suitable dressing accommodation, with
shower and foot baths, and sanitary conveniences are provided. The
water is treated by passing through filters and is then chlorinated.
The duration of the turn-over period varies according to the amount
the baths are used, but it is at least once a day, and at busy times is every
eight hours.
Daily tests are carried out for the presence of free chlorine and to
determine the pH value.
DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD
Burial Grounds
The Council by the provisions of Section 46 of the Middlesex Review
Order, 1934, became the burial authority for the district. The Corporation
controls the cemeteries at Pinner (22.4 acres) and Byron Road,
Wealdstone (6.5 acres) and burial grounds at Roxeth Hill, Eastcote Lane
(3.46 acres), Pinner Road (7 acres), Paines Lane and Harrow Weald
(10.78 acres). The burial grounds at Roxeth Hill and Paines Lane are
now used only for reopenings. The acreage now in use is about 54,
sufficient to last at the present rate for about 27 years. There is, apart
from reopenings, little available at the grounds under the control of the
church authorities, namely Harrow, Roxeth, Pinner, Harrow Weald,
Great Stanmore and Whitchurch.
In 1949 the Council agreed in principle to acquiring land forming
part of the Carpenders Park site at Oxhey Lane, Herts, for cemetery
purposes and in 1953 purchased 7.63 acres of this land.
Cremation
At their meeting on the 4th November, 1944, the Council agreed in
principle to the provision and erection at the appropriate time of a
crematorium on land forming part of the Harrow Weald cemetery
reservation. A meeting of representatives of a number of West Middlesex
authorities discussed the possibility of the joint use by such authorities
of a crematorium to be provided by the Council. The outcome was that
the Council agreed that the early provision of a crematorium to serve
Harrow and Wembley was desirable. A suggestion that the crematorium
should be built at Northwick Park was later abandoned, and discussions