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The private street portion of Park Road was sewered
under the Private Street Works Act, 1892 at a cost of
£1056.
The sewer in Bath Passage has been entirely relaid
at an improved gradient.
The programme for the construction of additional
manholes on the existing foul and surface water sewers has
been continued. Approximately £1,000 has been spent for
this purpose.
Wanderings Farm ditch and the ditch running through
the Villiers Road Depot have been piped in.
(iii) Rivers and Streams.
The effluent from the Corporation's Sewage Works discharges
into the River Thames, and complies with the
standard fixed by the Thames Conservancy.
A Joint Scheme is still under consideration with regard
to the Hogg's Mill Stream, which receives the sewage
effluents from Maiden, Epsom and Ewell, before traversing
the Borough to flow into the Thames.
Chemical Analysis of the water of the Hogg's Mill
Stream indicates very serious pollution.
(iv) Closet Accommodation.
The closets in the Borough are on the water-carriage
system.
(v) Public Cleansing.
The removal and disposal of house refuse is undertaken
by the Borough Surveyor's Department.
Refuse is partly tipped, and the remainder is burnt in
the Destructor.
(vi) Sanitary Inspection of the Area.
A classified statement of the number of premises visited,
the defects or nuisances discovered, and the action and
result of action taken in regard to these, appears in the