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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DISTRICT.
Water Supply.
The water from wells supplying thirteen dwellings has been
analysed during the year and in each case was found to be so
polluted as to be unfit for use for domestic purposes. In eleven of
these, the wells have been closed voluntarily by the owners, and the
supply from the Metropolitan Water Board substituted.
With few exceptions the rest of the dwellings in the district
have the supply from the Water Board laid on.
Eel Pie Island.
The insanitary conditions existing at this island have been
under consideration by the Committee, and the matter is to receive
farther consideration. The conditions referred to in the last
annual report remain much the same, but owing to the war, the
island was much less frequented by the public during the summer
and the nuisances were not so marked.
Collection and Disposal of House Refuse.
With the exception of Eel Pie Island the house refuse is
collected weekly in covered carts by the Council's own employees
and all is burnt in the destructor.
Daily collection is however made from some of the flats where
the storage for a longer period is undesirable.
I am indebted to the Surveyor for the following and several
other figures:—
Quantity collected during the year 15,790 cubic yards.
Average quantity collected per day 52½ „