[Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, Ware R.D.C.

  • Ware (Hertfordshire, England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1957
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Credit: [Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, Ware R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    emptying per.year is allowed free of charge by the Council if carried out in rotation according to the timetable. Any emptying taken out of turn extra to the annual emptying has to be paid for on the scale of charges in force at the time. At the moment the charge is 30/-d. per load of approximately five to six hundred gallons with a minimum charge of £3.0.0d. Cesspools or septic tankswhich are in the vicinity of public sewers and lie within the area shown on the Council's resolution map are not emptied free of charge at any time. Pail Closets The Council's cesspool empt3ring vehicles are fitted with hoppers and vacuum pumps for the purpose of taking the contents of pail closets. These are emptied twice a week throughout the whole district. They are emptied free of charge in an area which lies outside the ‘pres¬ cribed areas which are in the proximity of the public sewers. The owners or occupiers of premises 'within the prescribed areas who require this service have to make' a request and pay 20/-d. per quarter for one pail to be emptied twice a week. This charge is intended to en¬ courage property owners to convert their pail closets to water closets. It is possible that this charge is too low for very few property owners will take advantage ..• of the sewer and far too many pail closets still remain in the vicinity of the public sewers. Refuse Collection and disposal Refuse is collected weekly throughout the district. Two side-loading vehicles of 10 cubic yards capacity are used. For collection purposes the Rural District is divided into North and South districts which are divided very roughly by the Buntingford branch railway line between Great Amwell and Vvidford. The refuse is-dis- posed of at a central tip near Downfield Farm, Ware. One man Is employed full-time on the tip and uses a Chaseside shovel for the purpose of covering the refuse. There have been no fires on the tip'and no reports of flies or vermin during the year. The portion of Wiggins; Pit, Great Amwell, which is still owned by the Council has not been used during the past year but ’the surface is subsiding and it may be possible in the future to put more material into this tip.'' The Council have: passed a resolution under Section 75 of the Public Health Act, 1936, prescribing the; size and capacity of dustbins