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SECTION C.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
1. (i) Water.
The water supply of the whole area is from the mains of
the Metropolitan Water Board and is of course both adequate
and excellent in quality. The majority of the houses in the
district have a tap direct from the rising main for drinking
purposes, as well as the usual storage cisterns for other domestic
purposes. Where such direct supply is found not to exist,
action is taken under Section 35 of the Public Health Act
(Amendment) Act, 1907. The number of houses dealt with in
this manner and taps direct from the rising main fixed during
the past year was 29.
(ii) Drainage and Sewerage.
Many of the houses in the Borough—practically all
constructed in recent years—have a dual system of drainage
(surface and soil) all connected to the public sewers. During
the year the smoke test was applied to the drainage systems of
89 houses and particulars of the drainage works—reconstruction
and repairs—carried out under the supervision of the sanitary
staff will be found in the tabular statement of the sanitary works
included in this section of the report.
The Borough Engineer has supplied me with the undermentioned
particulars relative to work in connection with the
public sewers:—
(a) Length of surface water sewers laid or
structed during 1935 2,426 ft.
(b) Length of soil sewers laid or reconstructed
during 1935 2,067 ft.
The whole area now comes within the Middlesex County
Council Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Scheme for West
Middlesex. The construction of the new low level sewers
necessary to convey the sewage from the old Chiswick Disposal
Works and the Brentford Pumping Station to the new central
disposal works situated in the Heston and Isleworth District
was completed during the year. These new trunk sewers were
put into operation in November, 1935, thereby rendering
redundant both the Chiswick and Brentford Sewage Disposal
Works.