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from this well. This course appeared to be undesirable and
representation was made to the firm requesting them to connect
up the cottages with the public mains. This the firm were quite
willing to do, but they discovered that if this course was adopted
the assessment for water rate would be in respect of the whole
factory and not in respect of the few cottages to which the water
from the main would be supplied. A representation was made .to
the Metropolitan Water Board asking them to reconsider the
matter of assessment, and at the time of writing negotiations are
still proceeding.
Sewerage and sewage disposal. The water carriage
system of sewage removal is almost universal throughout the
borough. Houses are provided with properly flushed waterclosets,
discharging by modern drainage into the public sewers
which also convey the surface water. That part of the borough
lying south of the Victoria and Albert Docks is drained into a
main sewer which passes through portions of East Ham and North
Woolwich, and discharges into the London County Council's
sewer at North Woolwich.
The whole of the sewage of the borough is water-borne,
with the exception of that from a few isolated cottages on the
north side. Excepting' this comparatively small area, the whole
district north of the Victoria and Albert Docks is drained by
gravitation sewers to the Corporation's pumping station at Abbey
Mills, where it is pumped into the northern outfall sewer which
crosses the borough obliquely to the London outfall at Barking.
Provision is made for the pumping of storm water into the Channelsea
river. Certain storm sewers are provided, and these discharge
into the rivers and ditches.
Refuse collection and disposal. 1 am indebted to the
Borough Engineer, Mr. W. Lionel Jenkins, O.B.E., for the
following report: —
"The 'Pagefield' system of refuse collection is made up
of a number of complete units, each consisting of one mechanically
propelled vehicle and three horse-drawn containers. Each unit
operates to a strict time-table on a carefully worked out route.
The horse-drawn containers are low-loading, and when filled are
hauled mechanically on to the motor driven vehicle for conveyance
to the shoot, an empty container being left with the fillers.
This process is repeated to each of the three containers in turn,
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