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RIVERS AND STREAMS
Twenty visits have been paid to all works suspected of discharging
effluent into surface water sewers.
CLOSET ACCOMMODATION
With one exception the whole of the district is on the water
carriage system, the houses being drained to the public sewer.
At the end of year there was one cesspool in use.
PUBLIC CLEANSING
A fortnightly collection of house refuse is carried out by direct
labour. Four dust collection vehicles are in use.
A fortnightly collection of salvage is also made, two vehicles
being used for this purpose.
ERADICATION OF BED BUGS
Number of Council houses found infested during the year, 47.
Number of other houses found infested during the year, 25.
Number of requisitioned, etc., houses found infested during
the year, 4.
Total number of houses disinfested during the year, 76.
Methods employed: —
21 houses treated with sulphur dioxide.
55 houses treated with insecticide spray (inclusive of
rooms treated on more than one occasion).
No private houses were treated by the Council staff, but advice
was given and material supplied at cost price on request
in respect of 25 houses.
Number of private houses disinfested by owners or occupiers
after notice, 20.
Number of houses disinfested for beetles, 157.
SCHOOLS
The supervision of the public elementary schools is under the
control of the Education Department of the Surrey County
Council.