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Council's sewers were treated for the purpose of exterminating rats.
From reports received it appears that considerable success has attended
these efforts."
Removal of Aged and Infirm Persons. It was not found necessary
to apply to the Court for any Order during the year.
Swimming Baths. At all the Baths maintained by the Borough
Council a chlorination plant is installed and periodical sampling is
conducted to ensure that a high standard of water purity is maintained.
Six samples were taken in 1933.
Sewerage and Drainage. All drainage work, except in new
buildings, whether done voluntarily by the owner or as a result of
Notices under Statute, is supervised by the Sanitary Inspectors. The
drainage in connection with 91 premises was entirely reconstructed
during the year, in 100 instances partly reconstructed, and in 139 premises
the drains were unstopped and cleansed.
Flooding. Certain portions of the Borough, notably the Clifton
Hill area, are liable to flooding in times of heavy rainfall, but none
occurred in 1933.
Closet Accommodation. All closets are upon the water-carriage
system with the exception of two earth closets, located in a position
inaccessible to a sewer.
Scavenging. All street refuse is swept and picked up by the
sweepers working with orderly barrows and conveyed to street refuse
bins. Its collection and removal to the shoot is by low-loading, ironcovered
motor lorry. The main and permanently paved roads are
swept by motor machine broom early each morning. Motor street
watering machines are used for street watering and flushing courts and
alleys. Street gullies are cleansed by a motor vacuum gully emptier.
House Refuse. Storage, except for approximately 82 covered ashpits,
is effected in movable ash-bins. Removal, weekly as a rule, but
twice weekly in the case of certain large London County Council and
other buildings, and certain restaurants and bakers' shops, is entirely
done by motor transport, iron covered vehicles being used, together
with, towards the end of the year, the use of one internal loading
vehicle. Disposal is effected, under contract, by barge to Rainham.
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