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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
WATER SUPPLY
With the exception of eight houses in Goat Road, the whole
of the Borough is supplied by the mains of the Metropolitan
water Board. The houses in Goat Road are supplied from the
Sutton Water Company. Occasional samples of water have been
taken and all have proved satisfactory.
RIVERS AND STREAMS
Visits have been paid to all works suspected of discharging
polluted effluent into surface water sewers. Three complaints
were received and remedied as follows:—
In two cases precipitation tanks were installed through which
the effluent passed before discharge into sewer.
In one case an oil interceptor was installed.
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 house 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
Thirty-two observations were kept on chimneys during the
year. In connection therewith nine notices were served and the
nuisances abated.
SWIMMING BATH
The water in the swimming bath is under a continuous
process of filtration, chlorination and aeration. Bacteriological