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takings drawing water from such rivers should make regular determinations;
that the information should be made available to the Health
Departments; that the possibility of long term effects on health caused by
drinking water containing such concentrations, or by the use of crockery
washed with synthetic detergents and not rinsed be kept under permanent
review; that investigations should be made at sewage works into the
possibility of destroying the main ingredients of household synthetic
detergents; that manufacturers of these detergents should investigate the
feasibility of producing effective washing products based on materials
which can be oxidised or eliminated and not cause foaming; and an
advisory body be set up to facilitate research and keep progress under
review.
PUBLIC CLEANSING
Much the same arrangements for the collection of refuse, its disposal
and for street cleansing were continued last year as were described in the
Annual Report for 1954.
Each week some 960 tons of refuse are collected by the 40 mechanical
vehicles from some 70,000 premises in the district. Other arrangements
are made for the collection of waste paper from shops and business
premises.
For the last few years house refuse from this district has been
conveyed to a tip at Harefield. The present agreement with the Uxbridge
Council expires on the 31st March, 1959. The Urban District Council
had contemplated erecting plants for the disposal of refuse on sites at
Newton Farm and the Gt. Stanmore Sewage Farm. A scheme for a
destructor at Newton Farm was submitted to the Minister in 1952 and
an enquiry was held. No sanction to this proposal was received.
PUBLIC CONVENIENCES
The Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year
1935 contained particulars of the public conveniences in the district.
The reference closed—" With the development of the district, further
provision of sanitary conveniences will be necessary particularly in the
neighbourhood of shopping centres. The two districts most urgently
calling for attention are Kenton, near the station and Pinner."
The situation in Pinner has all these years been partially met by the
arrangements entered into by the council with the owners of the Red
Lion public house by which the urinal was made available to members of
the public. At their meeting in January, 1956, the Council accepted a
tender for the construction of a public convenience at Chapel Lane,
Pinner. Unfortunately this project has had to be postponed because of
the need to restrict capital expenditure.
Although there has all along been general agreement about the need
for a convenience in the Kenton shopping area, it has not up to this been
Possible to reach agreement about its siting, the suggestion of any particular
site being opposed by those living in the immediate vicinity.
This is what happened again about the suggested site at the back of the