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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. A few factories have an additional supply
from deep wells.
There are five licensed caravan yards, each with a stand pipe,
supplying altogether a total of 15 caravans.
The water has been of a consistently high standard of purity
and there is no record of any case of infectious disease being
transmitted by water.
A large number of houses in the Borough have no supply of
drinking water direct from the main, but are supplied from a tank
in the roof. Provided the tank is properly covered and is cleansed
regularly, it provides a satisfactory 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, then treated at the works
of the Wandle Valley Joint Sewerage Board, situated in Mitcham.
PUBLIC CLEANSING
A weekly collection of house refuse is carried out by direct
labour. Ten refuse collection vehicles are in use.
CLEAN AIR ACT, 1956
There are no Smoke Control Areas as yet, as the Council do not
consider the area to be a bad one compared with the neighbouring
metropolitan areas. Mitcham is, however, included with those areas
and the position will be reviewed from time to time.