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Closet Accommodation
All dwellings are connected to the public sewers except for 17 drained
to cesspools in unsewered areas. Most of these are in the Woodcote Grove
area, where the Council's scheme for a sewer extension approved by the
Minister is now in course of construction.
Public Cleansing
No changes have been made in the arrangements for refuse collection.
Disposal is by incineration at the Council's Destructor with tipping of
clinker and screenings on the Cemetery Board's land in Lower Morden.
Salvage of saleable commodities, such as paper, tins, ferrous and nonferrous
metals, bottles and rags was continued as in previous years.
Sanitary Inspection
The following information supplied by the Chief Public Health
Inspector under Article 25 of the Public Health Officers' Regulations, 1959,
indicates the action taken in sanitary inspection during the year.
Investigations were made with regard to 1,627 complaints as follows:—
Accumulations 33
Animals so kept 8
Burst pipes 12
Clean Air Act—Contraventions 28
Dampness 14
Ditches and Ponds 1
Drainage defects 58
Drains obstructed 382
Dustbins 71
Food contaminated 13
General defective conditions 72
Insects and Pests 403
Litter Act—Contraventions 1
Milk—Contaminated—Dirty Bottles 1
Miscellaneous 46
Obnoxious effluvia 46
Overcrowding 3
Refuse collections 23
Rivers 1
Rodents 326
Roofs, defective 5
Sewer obstructions 7
Sink waste pipes 3
Unsound food 57
Verminous premises 11
Water supply 2
1,627
Fourteen thousand three hundred and forty visits of inspection and
re-inspection were made for the purposes set out below:—
Clean Air Act 808
Cowsheds 6
Employment Agencies 12
Factories (Mechanical Power) (incl. Laundries 38) 265
Factories (Non-Mechanical Power) 69
Factories (Building Sites) 59
Food and Drugs (incl. Food Bye-laws) 1,061
Food poisoning enquiries 12
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