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A serious nuisance to the residents in one area of
the district was caused by the contamination of the
water in a disused gravel pit during tipping operations.
Action was taken and the company concerned cooperated
fully. After a number of methods had been
experimented with it was found necessary to discharge
many thousands of gallons, of water into the West
Middlesex Main Drainage Board's sewers, the dilution
of the remaining water and large scale aeration. This
necessitated constructing a pumping main and several
pumping and aeration plants, two of which had to be
mounted on steel floats and launched upon the offending
water. The nuisance was completely abated and
arrangements made for the quick filling in of the pit by
the large scale tipping of shelter rubble, etc.
After statutory action had been taken, the use of
a private sewerage disposal plant serving 128 dwellings,
which had given rise to nuisances on a number of
occasions, was discontinued and the effluent diverted to
the Council's sewers.
The supply of dustbins has much improved, enabling
a speeding up of action taken under Section 75 of
the Public Health Act, 1936, to be effected.
Rodent destruction, in accordance with the methods
advocated by the Ministry of Food, has been continued.
The house refuse tip has been kept under observation,
but no serious infestation has occurred.
Nomad caravan dwellers have been a source of
considerable trouble, as they have been to surrounding
districts.
The wholesale meat distribution depot No. 16, which
has operated at Bedfont since the early days of the war,
returned to Smithfield on the 16th March, 1946. The
distribution of meat to this and adjoining areas continues
through the depot at its new location.
Fifty-seven samples were taken of graded milks,
most of which were satisfactory. One or two odd
samples failed, but it was usually possible to attribute
this failure to some temporary fault. They were not
due to consistently faulty methods.