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The Disposal of House Refuse is still conducted
on the lines which have now obtained for some years, and complaints
from persons residing in the new houses near to the dock
at which the carts tip their contents into the barges are of frequent
occurrence.
The question of the provision of a dust destructor has again,
as for some years past, engaged the earnest attention of the
Council, but no conclusion has so far been determined on.
I understand that a new process, by which house refuse is
rapidly converted into an inoffensive dry powder, has lately obtained
favourable comment.
So far as my information goes, the process is an excellent one,
and suitable for this district.
Earlier in the year some communications were made to the
Richmond Borough Council, as it was thought that possibly that
Authority might favourably consider a plan for the erection of a
dust destructor under joint management near to the works of the
Joint Sewerage Board.
No progress, however, was made with the pourparlers.
Trade refuse is now, I am glad to say, removed by the Council's
scavengers by arrangement with those tradespeople who are willing.
Complaints frequently reach the Sanitary Department from
householders who are aggrieved by the deposition of rubbish in the
secondary means of access to their houses.
In some parts of the district there are quite long lanes, running
between the back gardens of contiguous streets, which afford these
secondary means of access, and it appears to be the general
practice for householders to deposit dead leaves, the cuttings from
lawns, &c., in these lanes, opposite their neighbours' gates.