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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. There is
a weekly collection of household refuse and during the year a total of 8,712 tons
was removed from the houses in the district.
The practice of recovering waste paper continues and this is collected
by the Council, baled and sold.
There are 11 cesspools in the district, six of which serve private houses
and five of which serve trade premises.
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 seven trade premises not on the water
carriage system, two of which have chemical closets and five dry earth closets
which are attended to by the owners.
The number of non water-closet systems remaining at the end of the
year was a follows: 36 earth closets, no privies, no pail closets, and two
chemical closets.
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 14,310.
The following table shows an analysis of the number and nature of such
inspections:—