[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Benfleet U.D.C., Canvey Island U.D.C., Rayleigh U.D.C., Rochford R.D.C. (South East Essex).

Benfleet (England). Urban District Council.

Date:: 1959

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Credit: [Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Benfleet U.D.C., Canvey Island U.D.C., Rayleigh U.D.C., Rochford R.D.C. (South East Essex). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Tile excess flows due to storm and subsoil water which affect hoth works is hy-passed at the rate of three times the Dry Weatlicr Flow, for appropriate partial treatment. During 1959 the main sewers were extended hy 1,463 yards and 569 new properties and 371 existing properties were connected. Of those properties in the Rural District not served hy the main drainage system approximately 650 are provided with cesspools and the remainder have earth or chemical closets. Night soil is collected twice weekly from 350 properties and once weekly from 97 properties : the Chief Public Health Ins])ector is responsible for this. PUBLIC CLEANSINO \\'ith the continual development of the area—over 1,800 new properties built during 1959 being added for refuse collection purposes—the expansion of the service continued with the attendant staffing problems. However, a regular service was generally maintained and the following details are given for each of the four Districts :— Benfleet U.D. Three modern vehicles, each with a crew of five men, and one vehicle with two men, undertake the collection of refuse and salvage. Collection is made weekly, and includes a number of unmade roads, but there are a few unmade roads in the more remote parts of the area where it is not possible to collect. Disposal is by means of controlled tipping on the Benfleet Marshes and two men and a bidldozer arc permanently employed on this. Efforts to salvage all materials of value continued, and the sale of such material realised /945. Canvey Island U.D. Regular fortnightly collections of refuse have been maintained throughout the year, both from unmade as well as made roads. Trade refuse is collected free on a normal house basis of one dustbin per property, but charges are made for removal and disposal of trade refuse in excess of this quantity. Collection is made with two vehicles, one with a crew of three men and the other with a crew of two. Additional temporary labour is usually engaged during the summer months. Two men are regularly employed in disposal, which continues very satisfactorily in the excavated “ borrow pits ” at Newlands. The tip is open free of charge to receive refuse, rublush, unwanted materials, old furniture, earth or building materials provided same is transported to the tip during normal working hours. This is a service which is helping to “ Keep Canvey Tidy ” as traders and the general public are beginning to realise that they can take unwanted articles and materials to the free tip and dispose of them in a proper manner.$