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With the exception of Districts No. 4, 5 and 6, which shew
a slight increase, a reduction is shewn throughout the Parish,
particularly in No. 2 District, the number of cases during 1899
being 102 less than during the previous year. That district
in the year 1898 had a most undue proportion of the cases
and was the subject of long and anxious enquiry by a Special
Health Sub-Committee. As the result of the enquiry a large
number of works were ordered to be executed in connection
with the ventilation, flushing and re-laying of sewers and the
re-construction of street gullies in the district.
These works have practically been completed during the
year under report, by the Works Department, and include the
provision of automatic flushing chambers to discharge 600 gallons
of water, at the stump end of the sewers in Alfred Street, Arthur
Street, Austin Road, Blondel Street, Carpenter Street, Chatham
Street, Rollo Street, and Warsill Street. With a view to
improving the ventilation and circulation of the sewer, the
stump ends have also been connected to the sewers of adjacent
streets as follows :—Stewarts Lane West with Havelock Terrace,
Southolm Street and St. George's Street with Queens Road,
Landseer Street with Rollo Street, Longhedge Street with
Henley Street, Parkside Street and Orkney Street with Blondel
Street, Anerley Street with Orkney Street, and Frere Street
with Atherton Street, The whole of sewers in the district south
of Battersea Park Road have been provided with inlet and outlet
ventilation, the latter by means of 8-inch up-cast shafts at their
highest point, and the sewers were ordered to be reconstructed in
consequence of their sluggish fall and defective condition, in
Alfred Street, Arthur Street, Austin Road, Landseer Street,
Palmerston Street and Russell Street. In addition, the whole
of the defective brick gullies have been replaced by glazed stoneware
traps, or where the gullies were in good condition, the flap
traps were replaced by syphon blocks, the remarks concerning
the gullies applying to the whole of the Parish, where the work