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Seventy-one cases of overcrowding were abated
and 110 houses were closed as unfit for human
habitation. Many of the latter had not been
occupied for a long time; 1.309 closets were repanned
and trapped, and 234 were supplied with
water. The number of defective drains which were
reconstructed was 1,867, and of stopped drains
cleared 171.
Twenty cesspools were filled up. The reconstructed
drains which were tested with water numbered
2,577.
Eighty-five offensive accumulations were removed.
The bakehouses, numbering 81, were all inspected.
I found those which were reported to me as being
the worst in the parish were in a clean and fairly
satisfactory condition.
Four hundred and forty-three roofs and 211 rain
shoots were put in order; 1,055 houses had the
underground floors ventilated by the insertion of
air-bricks.
In 1,267 instances the water used for flushing
water closets was separated from that in use for
other domestic purposes.