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inhabitants upon removal. This material becomes saturated with the
urine of the horses, which, decomposing, creates a terribly offensive
odour when the manure is placed in heaps and is disturbed in the
process of removal. The best means of dealing with the nuisance has
been to cause the owners of the stables to place a vehicle in each of their
yards for the reception of the refuse on removal from the stables, so that
it might be taken away without further disturbance.
The number of applications to examine the drainage of private
houses was 175, an increase of 24 on the previous year. Owing to the
uncertain and unsatisfactory results of the smoke tests, the water test is
ordered by your Vestry to be applied, but in houses where no manhole
interceptor on the main drain has been originally provided this cannot
be done without opening the ground. This the private applicant
frequently refuses to do, and the matter falls through. This does not
apply, of course, to premises where illness or a nuisance is proved to
exist, when an order to open up would in ordinary course be made.
The total number of complaints received during the year was 232,
an increase of 33 over the previous year, caused no doubt by the hot
dry summer.
The total number of orders made for sanitary amendments was
1,130.
Legal proceedings were taken in 20 instances, all of which were
successful. It may be added that owners generally do what is necessary,
upon receipt of the preliminary, or intimation, notice. Statutory Notices
are issued by the Public Health Committee, who are empowered by the
Vestry to act as the Sanitary Authority in connection with the carrying
out of the Public Health Acts.
Slaughterhouses. —The annual inspection of these premises by the
Public Health Committee took place on October 3rd, when they were
mostly found to be in good order, so that it was not necessary to make
any objection to the renewal of the several licenses.
Cowhouses have now, for some years, finally disappeared from the
Parish.