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DISPOSAL OF HOUSE REFUSE.
The whole of the refuse was disposed of by tipping it
into disused gravel pits, and for making up low-lying
ground. Out of the total number of loads collected, 10,522
were deposited in the gravel pit off Aldborough Road.
Everything which could be reasonably expected was
done to prevent any nuisance arising from the refuse whilst
being tipped. Each load as tipped was at once levelled
down, and the refuse afterwards treated several times a day
with a liberal dressing of gas lime and earth.
The present shoot is being rapidly filled up, and the
space available becoming very limited. Unless the matter
of the site upon which a destructor is to be erected is very
soon settled, before many months elapse it will be necessary
to take into consideration the measures that must be adopted
in the immediate future for the disposal of the house refuse.
The total cost in connection with the collection and
disposal of the house refuse for the year 1909 was
£3,605 17s. 7½d. This amount works out at 6s. per load
per annum; 4s. 6.6gd. per ton per annum; 4s. n.68d. per
house per annum, or 1.14 pence per house per week.
F. W. King,
Chief Sanitary Inspector.