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During 1926, in compliance with notices served by the Sanitary
Inspector, 101 new movable sanitary dustbins have been
provided.
Cleansing and Scavenging of Streets.—Mechanical sweepers are
used for this purpose and the road-sweepings are removed by motor
vehicles to a tip at the destructor works, or to a tip on Palewell
Fields.
Disposal of Refuse.—The house refuse removed is incinerated
at the Council's Destructor. In addition to the refuse from the
Barnes Urban District the house refuse from the Borough of
Richmond is also destroyed at the Council's Destructor. During
1926 the amount of refuse destroyed was 19,730 tons, from the
Barnes Urban District 10,176 tons, and from Richmond Borough
9,554 tons.
Xo nuisance has been experienced in the district arising from
the destructor works except a prevalence of flies and crickets complained
of by the occupiers of some of the houses erected by the
Council near the destructor for housing their workmen employed
on the works. Every endeavour has been made to lessen this
nuisance as far as possible.
The cleansing of the three earth-closets and eleven cesspools in
the area is undertaken by the occupiers of the premises. Cleansing
has been carried out in accordance with the bye-laws.
Sanitary Inspection of the District.
The work undertaken during the year under the various
Public Health Acts, Bye-laws and Regulations (including the
Adoptive Measures given in the table on pages 17 and 18) is shown
below in the tabular statement, furnished by the Chief Sanitary
Inspector under Article XIX of the Sanitary Officers Order, 1922,
containing particulars as to the number and nature of the inspections
made by the Sanitary Inspectors during the year, the number
of notices (statutory and informal respectively) served, and the
result of the service of such notices.
The total number of premises visited by the Sanitary
Inspectors under the various Acts, etc., in operation
was 1,529, the total number of visits paid being 5,558. These
figures do not include visits made by the Sanitary Inspector in
connection with his duties as Inspector under the Petroleum Act
and Shops Acts, neither do they include the visits made to premises
by the Ratcatcher.
Legal Proceedings. It was not found necessary to institute
legal proceedings in any case during 1926.