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The House Refuse is efficiently and quickly removed by
the Council's Scavengers under the direction of the Surveyor and
is, at present, disposed of by being barged away, under contract,
from Small Profit Dock. Many residential villas and a larger
Council School are being built in the near vicinity of the Dock, and
1 cannot too emphatically reiterate the opinion which I have
expressed in every former annual report that this system should
be done away with.
It cannot but be, under present circumstances, a nuisance and
injurious to health.
Everything possible to mitigate annoyance or danger has been
done by the Surveyor, who has. however, for some years past,
advised the erection of a dust destructor.
The question of site for such a dust destructor appears to be
the great, if not the only difficulty.
The plan advised is that of the utilization of the space now
provided by the extension of the Council's Depot, in High Street,
Mortlake, but an alternative scheme is one of co-operation with the
Borough of Richmond in a joint installation adjoining the Sewage
Works.
The most cogent argument against the first plan seems to be
the sesthetic one, and that against the second plan the economic
consideration.
It is to be hoped, however, that a practical advance may be
made during the current year : delay will certainly not render the
solution easier, and will probably make it more expensive.
The work undertaken with regard to Nuisances is summarized
in the table on page 58, and has been, as in past years, ably
organized by Mr. Grylls.