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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
Water
The Metropolitan Water Board, the Colne Valley Water Company together with the Rickmansworth
and Uxbridge Water Board supply Brent with water. These supplies are not subject to plumbo-solvent action
and have been satisfactory both in quantity and quality. All dwelling houses and flats have a piped supply
direct from the mains and there were no complaints of any contamination during the year. Frequent
bacteriological and chemical examination of the water is carried out by the various undertakings.
Sewage and Drainage
Most of the sewage from the Willesden area of the Borough is discharged into the Greater London
Council main sewers, and all that from the Wembley area together with a small amount from the Park
Royal area is discharged into the West Middlesex Main Drainage system.
The arrangements for sewage disposal are adequate and also those for sewerage with minor exceptions
due to local flooding associated with severe storms.
Refuse Disposal
The Amenities and Works Department deals with the provision of dustbins.
House refuse is collected weekly and trade refuse as often as required at an agreed charge. The
Greater London Council is responsible for the disposal of refuse by controlled tipping and by separation
and incineration.
Swimming Baths
The Director of Amenities and Works has kindly supplied the following information in respect of
the five swimming baths in the Borough.
The water for filling the baths is obtained from the mains supply. It is regularly chlorinated and
plant of sufficient capacity to ensure breakpoint chlorination is installed at each pool. The capacity of each
bath and the time taken for the whole of the water to pass through the filters and treatment plant is as
follows:—
Time taken for water to
Capacity pass through filters, etc.
(gallons) (hours)
Granville Road Baths 145,000 4
Gladstone Park Swimming Pool 500,000 6
Willesden Sports Centre Swimming Pools (3) 532,000 6½
Kingsbury Swimming Pool 464,000 4½
Vale Farm Swimming Pool 400,000 5
Four hundred and eighteen samples were taken of which 7 were unsatisfactory. (See Public Health
Laboratory Service page 33).
When samples were found to be unsatisfactory, immediate investigations were made and the
various causes remedied.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA
(Tables 26—31)
Demolition and Closing Orders
Demolition Orders were made in respect of property at 35, Beaconsfield Road, N.W.10, and 22,
Connaught Road, N.W.10; and Closing Orders were made in respect of basements at 187, Carlton Vale,
N.W.6, 854 Harrow Road, N.W.10 and 10 St. Julians Road, N.W.6.
The Demolition Order was determined in respect of 12 Connaught Road, N.W.10; and the Closing
Orders on the ground floor of 2, Bramshill Road, N.W.10, and the basements of 864, Harrow Road, N.W.10
and 119 Keslake Road, N.W.6 were determined. Schedules of works to make the premises fit for human
habitation were completed satisfactorily in each case.
Slum Clearance
During the year under review there were no proposals for slum clearance considered.
House to House Inspection and Multiple Occupation
House to house inspection was limited and having regard to changes in thinking concerning the
effectiveness of this work and the benefits to be derived from concentrating in areas of high density arising
from multiple occupation, consideration will be given to the implementation of house to house inspection
when a decision has been made concerning registration of houses in multiple occupation.
The service of Notices under Sections 15, 16 and 19 of the Housing Act, 1961, must also receive
consideration in any future project.
Overcrowding
The extent of over-crowding illegally or statutorily is not known and is not static. From time to
time it is dealt with by flagrant breaches of the provisions of the Act being brought to the notice of
the Department.