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cleansed or repaired. Drains were tested by smoke in one
thousand three hundred and thirty-one cases, the majority being
found defective. Nine hundred and ninety-seven new or reconstructed
drains were subjected to the hydraulic test and found
sound. The large number of twelve hundred and five drains
were cleansed and repaired. The water supply apparatus to
w.c.'s were newly provided or repaired in one thousand and
fifty-four instances; eight hundred cisterns were cleansed or
repaired. Two hundred and eighty-two certificates of water
supply to new houses were issued.
A prominent feature in the work of the Sanitary department
is the largely increased number of special inspections made by
the Chief Sanitary Inspector and the District Sanitary Inspectors
the results of which are reported to the Sanitary Committee at
the next subsequent meeting. In order to facilitate reference to
the minutes if necessary the dates upon which such reports have
been made during the year 1895 are appended.
On January 15th it was reported that the Raywood
Street Board School had been entirely redrained and new
w.c.'s &c., constructed upon plans approved by the Sanitary
Committee, the old drains and sanitary arrangements having
been found by the Chief Sanitary Inspector upon examination
and testing to be in very defective condition; during the
execution of the new works an old brick culvert 13 feet long
and 3 feet 6 inches in diameter was discovered half filled with
fcecal matter, this was emptied and carted away and the culvert
broken up, the same having been found to have no connection
with any other building or sewer.
Hudson's Wharf, Wandsworth Common goods yard,
depositing of house refuse for a longer period than 24 hours,
contrary to clause 8, L.C.C. bye-laws under Sec. 16, Public
Health (London) Act, also sorting and sifting of house refuse
was found to be carried on, on the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 11th, of
January contrary to order of Court of Summary Jurisdiction