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The Public Health Committee have recently
decided to purchase an additional Electric
Vehicle which will displace the horses now
employed and the whole of the collection will then
be removed to the Destructor by mechanical
traction.
Closet Accommodation.
Every house has a water closet, mostly, if not
all, with flushing arrangements. Alterations and
cleansings are dealt with in the Sanitary
Inspector's Report.
Scavenging.
House Refuse Disposal.—Section 36 of the
Public Health Act, 1875, is enforced in the District,
it empowers the Council to insist upon each
house being provided with portable galvanized
iron dust bins, where no suitable ashpits exists, or
where they are unsuitably placed or beyond repair.
All the houses are now provided with covered ashbins,
most of which are moveable.
There are no privies or cesspools within the
District other than those at Worcester Park and
Tolworth Court Farm, which are not within the
sewer area, and these are cleansed by the
occupiers.
The work of scavenging and removal of house
refuse formerly carried out by contract is now in
process of being taken over by the Council by
means of two Electric Dust Vehicles and two