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HOUSE REFUSE REMOVAL AND SCAVENGING.
No complaints have been received under these headings, and the
work in my judgment has been well done. As in recent years, biweekly,
and where shops predominate, tri-weekly removals of dust are
systematically carried out.
The new Bye-Laws, providing for a galvanised, or other suitable metal
receptacle for house refuse, have not been observed to the extent
anticipated, and sufficient time has elapsed for householders to have
made a voluntary change from the old boxes and baskets formerly in
use.
Insistance is now advised on the observance of the Bye-Laws in this
respect.
The Destructor is now nearing completion, and will shortly be in
operation.
The vast improvement in the lighting of the district, noticed in recent
years, has been maintained.
The Scavenging, though well done, hardly ever shows to advantage,
owing to the amount of waste paper and other refuse of a similar nature
that gets into the streets and forecourts.
The Bye-Laws of the Essex County Council dealing with this
nuisance have been, as far as I can judge, a dead letter.
It would be well if the mud, etc., swept off the roads were collected
forthwith instead of being allowed to remain at times some days before
removal.
In May, the Sanitary Committee recommended that notice be served
on all stallholders, requesting them to provide their stalls with baskets
for the purpose of receiving refuse, in consequence of information given
me that poor children were in the habit of picking up and eating
damaged fruit and other perishable foodstuffs thrown on the ground by
the Vendors.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
The difficulty of dealing with the ever-increasing Sewage of the
district has been accentuated during the year by the action taken by the
Lea Conservancy Board against the Council for polluting the Dagenham
Brook.