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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
WATER SUPPLY
Except for eight houses in Goat Road, supplied by the Sutton
Water Company, the whole of Mitcham is supplied by the Metropolitan
Water Board.
There are in addition eight licensed caravan yards, each containing
a stand pipe and supplying a total of 26 caravans.
The water has been of a consistently high standard of purity
and no case of infectious disease has been transmitted by water.
A large number of the houses in the Borough have no supply
of drinking water direct from the main, but are supplied from a
tank in the roof. Provided this tank is properly covered and is
cleansed regularly, it provides a satisfactory supply, but frequently
the covers are left off and the tanks become contaminated
with dead birds, mice, etc., drowned whilst obtaining water. All
the more modern houses are, however, supplied with one tap for
drinking purposes direct from the main supply.
RIVERS AND STREAMS
Visits have been paid to all works suspected of discharging
effluent into surface water sewers.
CLOSET ACCOMMODATION
The whole of the district is on the water carriage system, the
houses being drained to the public sewer.
PUBLIC CLEANSING
A weekly collection of house refuse is carried out by direct
labour. Six dust collection vehicles are in use.
A weekly collection of salvage is also made, two vehicles being
used for this purpose.
Pig food is collected twice weekly, except for the months of
June, July and August, when a daily collection is made.