[Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, East Berks (Berkshire) United Sanitary Districts (Maidenhead U.D.C., Wokingham U.D.C., Cookham R.D.C., Easthampstead R.D.C., Windsor R.D.C., Wokingham R.D.C.).

  • East Berks (Berkshire United Sanitary Districts)
Date:
1939
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Credit: [Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, East Berks (Berkshire) United Sanitary Districts (Maidenhead U.D.C., Wokingham U.D.C., Cookham R.D.C., Easthampstead R.D.C., Windsor R.D.C., Wokingham R.D.C.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Contractors and deliberations by the Council, the latter have made representations to the Ministry asking for the question to receive further consideration in the hope that it may yet be possible to allow the completion of the whole contract. So far as the Disposal Works are concerned a tender was pro- visionally accepted by the Council in July, 1939, but until such time as the area to be sewered is definitely settled, and in this connection a further difficulty arises inasmuch as the Cookham Rural District has not yet reached a definite decision in regard to the sewering of those parts of their area which were to discharge into the Maidenhead system, no further progress in this direction can be made. In communicating their view with regard to the omission of the sewers in the Maidenhead Court and Fishery areas, the Ministry of Health also intimated that one filter should be deleted from the proposed disposal works. It is to be hoped that these outstanding questions will receive an early settlement, as it is most desirable that the works involved should be put in hand during the summer of 1940. PUBLIC CLEANSING. Collection of Refuse. The collection of house refuse continues to be done by a fleet of four S. & D. Freighters, an average of approximately 115 tons being handled each week. A system of trade refuse removal at a nominal charge has been inaugurated during the year. Disposal of Refuse. The whole of the house refuse continues to be disposed of by contract arrangement with the Agricultural and Public Contractors Limited, 90, Gower Street, London, W.C.l {Tel. Euston 5457), who after salvaging saleable material pulverise the remainder and compost it with crude sewage sludge for the production of agricultural fertilizer under the Sams Process Patent No. 451.885. Generally speaking this system of disposal is proving a success. Offensive trade waste is disposed of in like manner, but innocuous matter is dumped on land at the sewage disposal works.