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powers with respect to the opening up of ground and exposing
of drains granted to the Local Authority by this Section at 15
houses, authority first having been obtained from the Council,
and due written notices given to the occupier in each case.
The conditions found were duly reported to the Public Health
Committee, and notices served on their instructions, requiring
the re-construction or amendment of the defective drains, etc.,
as the circumstances required.
House Drainage.—The drainage systems and sanitary
arrangements of 9 houses have been entirely reconstructed,
extensive amendments or repairs were carried out at 69 other
houses, and at 22 houses the drainage systems have been made
water-tight by the patent internal process.
House to House Inspection.—During the year, house to
house surveys were carried out at 479 houses. The following
list shows the particular streets and the number of houses
inspected in each. A list lof the work carried out at the houses
is included in Table III., p. 53.
Balfour Road 36
Caxton Road 47
Cecil Road 74
Haydons Road 195
Russell Road 127
479
House Inspection.—Either as the result of inspections made
on complaint, in consequence of the occurrence of infectious
disease, request by occupiers and other general inspections,
684 houses were visited. Table III. shows a list of sanitary
works executed at these houses, together with defects remedied
during house to house inspection.
Overcrowding.—It is regrettable that the shortage of
houses in the district still continues, and that very few houses
of the smaller type have been erected during the year ; consequently,
overcrowded conditions of many houses in this district,
a circumstance common to many in the vicinity of the
Metropolis, continues.
There are very few sites left in the Borough where houses
of the small type can be built.
Houses originally built for occupation by one family, with
sanitary conveniences, washing facilities, etc., suitable and
sufficient, are now occupied by two, three, and sometimes four
families, The use in common of the conveniences provided, is
the cause of much friction, unhappiness, and bad feeling.
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