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DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE.
The work of collecting and disposing of the sewage of the
district is being carried on in a satisfactory manner throughout,
and the abolition of cess-pools has greatly improved certain
properties.
The number of houses connected with the sewers during
the year was 363, making a total with previous connections of
1088. When the owners of properties in private roads are permitted
to connect their drains with the sewers now being laid
in these roads the number of connections will no doubt increase
rapidly. Of the 122 nuisances arising from overflowing cesspools
about one half of the number occurred on properties in
Private Roads and of the remainder a considerable' number of
the drains have since been connected with the sewers, and of
course no further nuisances will arise from the overflowing cesspools
in these cases.
All the public schools in the district are now connected with
the sewers, and their sanitary arrangements are all very satisfactory,
their closets having been in each case re-modelled.
The closets at the railway station which in former years
gave a considerable amount of trouble, both to the officials of the
Company and the Sanitary Authority, have also been re-constructed
and connected with the sewers and are now greatly
improved.
The ventilation of the sewers by means of shafts at South
Teddington has been successful in removing the nuisance which
arose from bad smells issuing from the gratings in the roads.
The gratings in this part of the district have been closed and
there is now no opportunity for the smells to escape at the street
level. There is, however, a point in connection with the erection
of ventilating shafts to which I would draw attention. There is
no longer any nuisance observable in the street, but the sewers
are not free from gases and smells, which are merely allowed to
escape at a higher level. The sewers contain the same kinds of
offensive matter that they did before, and require as frequent
flushings and periodical inspections. In fact they should, if