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Closet Accommodation
Soil drainage is everywhere by water closets to the sewers except for
17 properties where the w.c.'s are drained to 13 cesspools in unsewered areas.
The scheme proposed by the Council for an extension of the sewer in
the Woodcote Grove area which will do away with many of the existing
cesspools, still awaits the Ministry's loan sanction.
Public Cleansing
The arrangements for refuse collection and disposal were as shewn in
previous reports. Clinker and screenings from the destructor have been
tipped at various sites in the district and also at the Carshalton and Merton
and Morden Joint Cemetery Board's land in Maiden.
Sanitary Inspection
The following information supplied by the Chief Public Health
Inspector under Article 27 of the Sanitary Officers' Regulations, 1935,
indicates the action taken in sanitary inspection during the year.
Investigations were made with regard to 1,198 complaints as follows:—
Accumulations 27
Animals so kept 8
Burst pipes 15
Dampness 19
Drainage defects 41
Drains obstructed 346
Dustbins 51
Food contaminated 20
Food Hygiene Regulations—Contraventions 5
General defective conditions 85
Insects and Pests 98
Milk, contaminated and dirty bottles 6
Miscellaneous 38
Obnoxious effluvia 23
Overcrowding 10
Refuse collections 16
Rodents 272
Roofs, defective
Sewer obstructions 16
Sink waste pipes 2
Smoke nuisances 8
Unsound food 74
Verminous premises 7
Water supply 3
1,198
Fourteen thousand one hundred and seventy-five visits of inspection
and re-inspection were made for the purposes set out below:—
Cowsheds 28
Employment Agencies 17
Factories (Mechanical Power) (incl. Laundries 63) 318
Factories (Non-Mechanical Power) 68
Factories (Building Sites) 93
Food and Drugs (incl. Food Byelaws) 1,219
Food poisoning enquiries 3
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