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Sanitary Circumstances the District. 19
Road, the other at Mortlake Green. It will probably be found
necessary, in the near future, to erect a public convenience at the
other end of the district, where it is to be hoped provision will be
made for both sexes.
REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL OP REFUSE.
The removal of house refuse is carried out by the Council's
own staff.
The refuse from all ordinary houses is cleared once a week,
and from certain blocks of flats and a few large houses it is cleared
twice or three times weekly, as is found necessary.
The refuse collected amounts to about seven cwt. per head
of population per annum, and it is collected into covered carts,
shot into covered barges, taken out and deposited at sea; the
Council, however, have now in course of erection a refuse
destructor, a much more hygienic method of refuse disposal.
This destructor will be at the extreme west end of this district,
near the Sewerage Works, and is about 500 yards away from
the nearest house. It consists of three cells of Messrs. Heenan
and Froude's through grates, these will be hand fired from the
front, the clinker being withdrawn from the rear into clinkering
wagons.
CLOSET ACCOMMODATION.
The closets in the district are all water closets, but in many
cases the lack of knowledge of the simple rules of hygiene are
clearly apparent in the foul and thickly-encrusted condition of the
pans and the dirty condition of the floor round the W.C. These
conditions are largely conduced to by the fact that in a large
number of the old houses the W.C.s are not lighted and ventilated.
It should be here mentioned that in several cases during 1911
in which complaints of smells in houses were made, that the smells
emanated from the dirty conditions of the W.C.s inside the house.