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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
WATER SUPPLY.
A constant supply of water is supplied to the whole of the
district by the mains of the Metropolitan Water Board.
DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE.
A new sewer from Goat Road to the sewage works is now
under construction. This will prevent the flooding which has taken
place at Beddington Corner.
A scheme for sludge digestion has also been approved by the
Ministry of Health.
RIVERS AND STREAMS.
Visits have been paid to all works suspected of discharging
polluted effluent into the surface water sewers. No complaints
were received during the year.
CLOSET ACCOMMODATION.
With very few exceptions the whole of the district is on the
water carriage system, the houses being drained to the public sewer.
At the end of the year there were four pail closets and three
cesspools in use.
PUBLIC CLEANSING.
A weekly collection of bouse refuse is carried out by direct
labour. Six dust collection vehicles, of modern type, are in use
under the continuous relay system. The refuse is burnt at the
Council's destructor.
SMOKE ABATEMENT.
Seventy-one observations were kept on chimneys during the
year. In connection therewith four notices were served and the
nuisances abated.
SWIMMING BATH.
The water in the swimming both is under a continuous process
of filtration, chlorination and aeration. Bacteriological tests show
that the water is very clean. During the summer season 109,546
persons used the swimming bath. Slipper baths are also provided,
and unemployed persons are allowed free use of these baths.