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SECTION C
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
1. WATER SUPPLY.
The town's water supply is provided by the Metropolitan
Water Board who maintain constant supervision over the
purity and adequacy of the supply.
During 1952, the Corporation arranged for a supply from
the Board's mains to the only dwelling house in the Borough
which was not so supplied. So far as is known, there are
now no houses drawing their water supply for domestic
purposes from a well. This is in marked contrast to the
position in the year 1920. At that time it was estimated
that 120 houses depended upon a water supply from private
wells.
Well water is used for industrial purposes at certain
factories in the town.
2. DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE.
The Borough Surveyor reports that the position regarding
disposal of sewage remains the same as last year, namely,
that the sewage from the Borough is pumped across the river
into a sewer in the Teddington area, for treatment at the
Mogden Disposal Works of the West Middlesex Main Drainage
Board. This arrangement is, of course, a temporary one
pending completion of the Hogsmill Valley Joint Sewerage
Board's scheme for the construction of new sewage disposal
works.
3. RIVERS AND STREAMS.
The River Thames forms the Western boundary of the
Borough and this river is under the control of the Thames
Conservancy Board. The Hogsmill River, a tributary of the
Thames, flows through the Borough. The chemical and
bacteriological condition of the stream is very unsatisfactory,
and is in large measure due to lack of natural
dilution for the sewage effluent carried in its flow.
It is doubtful if any improvement in. the condition
of the Hogsmill Stream through the Borough can be
expected until the Hogsmill Valley Joint Sewerage Scheme
for the construction of the new sewage disposal works for
Maiden, Surbiton, Epsom and Kingston has been completed.
It is hoped that the construction of the new works will
commence in the near future.
4. CLOSET ACCOMMODATION.
All closets in connection with dwelling houses in
the Borough are on the water carriage system.