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The following list shows the number of rooms
fumigated and of beds and other articles disinfected during
the year.
Number of rooms fumigated 57
,, „ beds disinfected 72
,, „ blankets 97
„ pillows „ 152
,, „ sheets ,, 61
„ „ miscellaneous articles 496
Total 935
HOUSE TO HOUSE INSPECTIONS.
This is a record of only nine months' work. The
number of inspections is not so large as formerly, but
the inspections are of a much more thorough character,
and therefore more valuable. The drains have been tested
with a smoke machine, which takes more time than the
volatile test, but this is a much more satisfactory test.
Larger houses have also been examined, the whole of the
property in the Road being done, instead of only inspecting
the smaller houses. One finds more insanitary fittings
and defects in the larger houses, because of the multiplicity
of sinks, bath-wastes, lavatories, etc., and these lend themselves
to ingenious but dangerous work on the part of
ignorant workmen.
Such a thing as a D trap and pan of a container
water-closet would never be found in a cottage. The
particular D trap and pan shewn in the photograph were
removed from a house rented at £60 per annum. (See
Figs. 1 and 2.)