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Closet Accommodation
All dwellings have water closets which are connected to the public
sewers, except in 17 properties where they are drained to cesspools.
The Ministry's sanction has now been received to proceed with the
soil sewer extension in the Woodcote Grove area, which the Council first
proposed to carry out in 1956. This scheme will do away with a number of
the existing cesspools.
Public Cleansing
The arrangements for collection and disposal of refuse remain as
before. Clinker and screenings from the destructor continue to be taken
to the Cemetery Board land in lower Morden. The organisation includes
the salvage of saleable commodities, such as paper, tins, metals, bottles
and rags.
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 1,385 complaints as follows:—
Accumulations 26
Animals so kept 7
Burst pipes 11
Dampness 25
Drainage defects 80
Drains obstructed 380
Dustbins 129
Food contaminated 11
Food Hygiene Regulations—Contraventions 2
General defective conditions 68
Insects and Pests 107
Miscellaneous 68
Obnoxious effluvia 26
Overcrowding 5
Refuse collections 27
Rodents 287
Roofs, defective 15
Sewer obstructions 9
Shops Act—Contravention 1
Sink waste pipes 5
Smoke nuisances 24
Unsound food 62
Verminous premises 9
Water supply 1
1,385
Fourteen thousand six hundred and twenty-four visits of inspection
and re-inspection were made for the purposes set out below:—
Cowsheds 24
Employment Agencies 13
Factories (Mechanical Power) (incl. Laundries 45) 329
Factories (Non-Mechanical Power) 73
Factories (Building Sites) 53
Food and Drugs (incl. Food Bye-laws)1,249
Food poisoning enquiries 10
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