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SECTION C.
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area.
Practically every dwelling in the Borough derives its water supply from that of the
Metropolitan Water Board, and with few exceptions every house is provided with a water closet.
The sewage from the Twickenham and Teddington portions of the Borough is disposed
of at the Mogden works of the West Middlesex sewage scheme. That from Hampton is dealt
with at the sewage works, Hanworth Road, Hampton, and from the Hampton Wick area at the
Kingston sewage works, under agreement with the Kingston Corporation.
The collection of house refuse is carried out under the direction of the Borough Surveyor,
who informs me that approximately 23,000 tons were collected during the year and disposed of
principally by burning in the destructors at Twickenham, Hampton, and Teddington, a portion
being disposed of by tipping.
The questions of standardisation of the methods and frequency of collection throughout
the enlarged Borough were under consideration at the end of the year.
Sanitary Inspectors.
Before amalgamation, the Borough of Twickenham employed two Sanitary Inspectors.
Two were employed by the Teddington Urban District Council, one by that of Hampton, and the
duties in Hampton Wick were carried out by an officer who combined the duties of Surveyor
and Sanitary Inspector.
Six whole-time Sanitary Inspectors are now employed, each being responsible for all the
duties in the portion of the Borough allotted to him, and the districts are no longer coterminous
with the former boundaries of the constituent districts which now form the enlarged Borough.
The system of inspection and of recording has also been reorganised and unified.
The complete records of visits paid by Sanitary Inspectors and work carried out in parts
of the enlarged Borough are not available for the first quarter of the year, but as far as has been
ascertained, the total number of inspections and reinspections carried out during the year was
16,731.
The visits paid in respect of each branch of the duties of the inspectors are set out under
the appropriate headings.
Notices were served on owners or occupiers as follows:—
Informal notices served 685
Informal notices complied 550
Statutory notices served 19
Statutory notices complied, including those carried
forward from 1936 50
Domestic Sanitation.
The duties of visiting premises after complaint, of housing inspections, the investigation
of alleged nuisances, the investigation of cases of infectious disease, and the necessary action by
way of disinfection of dwellings, together with the multifarious other tasks which confront
the Sanitary Inspector in his daily round, have been carried out actively and effectively by the
Inspectors. Following is a summary of the visits paid during the year:—
Visits to premises after complaint 839
Visits after occurrence of infectious disease 345
Visits under Housing Regulations 351
Total visits and inspections 16,731
The following works were carried out in consequence of the above visits:—
Drains tested 93
Drains unstopped and repaired 83
Waste pipes disconnected or repaired 30
Soil pipes provided or repaired 2
Inspection chambers inserted 4
Complete drainage reconstructions 10
Water supply cisterns repaired 11
Draw taps from main provided 32
Gutters repaired 95
Roofs repaired 296
W.c. apartments repaired or rebuilt 39
W.c's repaired 120
Dustbins provided 109
Damp walls remedied 266
Ventilation provided 66
Yards paved or repaired 102
Rooms stripped and cleansed 340
Offensive accumulations removed 26
Other works carried out 1535