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will necessitate a sewer from this site to the Low Level
Sewage Works. With both these completed, most of
the houses now using cesspools will be connected with
the sewers.
The sewage is treated partly by contact beds, and
in greater part by percolating filters, with rotating
sprinklers, four at the high-level and three at the lowlevel
works. Another is about to be constructed at the
low-level.
There is a separate system for storm-water. All
effluents are discharged into the Pyl Brook.
CLOSET ACCOMMODATION.
Except in rare instances, in the rural parts and
beyond the limit of the sewers, water closets are used.
There are five houses with cesspools in the chalk,
and 29 in the clay. As to those within reach of the
sewers, there is difficulty with levels. These cesspools
are emptied, as occasion demands, by the Sanitary
authority; 19 of the cesspools are beyond the limit of
the sewers.
SCAVENGING.
This is done by the Surveyor's Department, and a
daily collection is made. Covered carts, horse-drawn,
are used. All houses have movable ashbins.
The refuse is tipped on land adjoining the sewage
works. As soon as the fly season is due, each load,
as soon as tipped, is sprayed with "Miscible oil."
This method, which has been in use for some years,
has been successful in checking the development of flies
on the tip.
The Council have always before them the question
of finding some better way of dealing with the
household refuse, and are at the present time gathering
the latest information procurable.
Trade refuse is deposited in a separate place on a
farm, and covered with chloride of lime and earth.
Ultimately it is spread as manure on the adjoining
land.