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Drainage and Sewerage
Surface and soil water continues to be drained separately.
Investigations into pollution of watercourses has been undertaken
with reasonable success. This particularly so in the industrial
area in Brantwood Road, where we have been able to get factory
owners to carry out remedial works.
Closet Accommodation
The water carriage system operates throughout the Borough.
Close liaison has been observed with Her Majesty's Factory Inspector
in dealing with the closet accommodation in factories.
Atmospheric Pollution
The improvement noted in previous Annual Reports continues
to be maintained. Firms who use normal solid fuel are alive to
the fact that faulty combustion, and in consequence, atmospheric
pollution, is an economic matter as well as a public health one,
Incomplete combustion represents a waste of fuel and this
economic consideration does much to influence industrialists in
combating this practice.
No such consideration applies to those firms where fuel is
mainly the waste products of the factories, i.e„ offcuts and woodwaste.
In the main, the pollution caused is due to woodwaste being
burned on plants which were never designed for the purpose. It
is in this direction that "prior approval" could do much to prevent
the nuisance from arising.
Housing
In a densely built up area such as Tottenham the main preoccupation
of the Health Department is that of housing,
The economics of housing is a national problem and owners,
everywhere stress the impossibility of keeping their houses in a
reasonable state of repair.
This factor is having much influence on the present and future
problems. The Borough has many houses which have outlived their
useful lives and it is recognised that clearance is the final
solution.
There are however other houses which have many years of