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Excepting in portions of the district not fully developed, the whole of
the houses are supplied with water closets and are drained to the sewerage
system.
Public Cleansing.
The whole of the district is scavenged directly by the Council. House
refuse is collected in low-loading covered mechanically-drawn vehicles and is
transported to an incinerator which deals adequately with the work. During
the year a total of 7,947 tons of refuse were removed from the houses in the
district.
Householders have been asked to keep separate their old newspapers and
these are collected by the Council, baled and sold.
No cesspools are emptied or cleansed by the local authority, the few
which remain in the district being supervised by their owners.
Closet Accommodation.
Thirty-one closets, from houses not on the water carriage system, still
require to be emptied each week. Thirty of these are emptied by the Surveyor's
Department. In addition there are six trade premises not on the water carriage
system, three of which have chemical closets and three dry earth closets which
are attended to by the owners.
No closets were converted from the conservancy to the water carriage
system during the year. The number of non water-closet systems remaining
at the end of the year was as follows: 34 earth closets, no privies, no pail
closets, and three chemical closets.
There are 12 cesspools in the district, seven of which serve private
houses and five of which serve trade premises.
N.B.—These numbers are in excess of those shown in my report for 1934, as detailed
enquiries last November indicated that other closets and cesspools were in existence.
Sanitary Inspection of the District.
The total number of inspections of premises made in connection with
the work of the Health Department during the year was 13,777.
The following table shows an analysis of the number and nature of such
inspections :—
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