[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton UDC 1920].

  • Sutton (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
[1921]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton UDC 1920]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The sewage is treated partly by contact beds, and in greater part by percolating filters, with rotating sprinklers, four at the high-level and lour at the low- level works. 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 weekly 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 at the present time are experi¬ menting with a Jeffrey Pulveriser. Should this prove satisfactory a full installation will be put down, so that both house-refuse and sewage sludge can be pulverised together and form a valuable manure. 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.