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18 Sanitary Circumstances of the District.
is quite insufficient for this district is quite apparent, and it is to be
hoped that the Council will take steps to alter the Byelaws, so
that removal of accumulations of manure should be carried out
twice a week.
PASSAGES AT REAR OF BUILDINGS.
Many complaints were received during the past year with regard
to the condition of back passages. It was found that occupiers
of houses abutting on the passages make it a practice to deposit
their garden refuse in these passages. In the summer the putrefaction
of this organic matter gives rise to offensive emanations.
The method of dealing with this problem is certainly laborious. It
is necessary to serve a notice on each occupier having entrance to
the passage, even then, in numbers of cases, the person " by whose
act, default or sufferance "the nuisance arises or continues, is not
included.
In some cases the Council have decided to scavenge the
passages and recover the cost from the occupiers, but the cost of
recovering this money is twice that of the actual work.
This is a problem in which it is difficult to suggest an effectual
remedy.
SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE.
I am indebted to the courtesy of the Surveyor for the following
information. The drainage and sewerage of the district is
carried out on the separate system, the sewerage being conducted
to the Works of the Richmond Main Sewerage Board at the
extreme western end of Mortlake, where it is treated, chemically
and bacteriologically, the effluent being discharged into the
Thames. The surface water from the roads and roofs of houses
is conducted into a surface water sewer, and thence discharges into
the river at various points.
Two public conveniences, long urgently needed, are being
erected in the district, one at Milestone Green, Upper Richmond