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reported to me that they considered the drainage more faulty in the
butter class of houses than in the poorer.
Other sanitary defects were not neglected, such as sink, lavatory,
and bath wastes, and rain-water pipes directly communicating with
the soil pipe or drain, they being made to discharge over properlytrapped
gullies; old, obsolete fittings of water closets, where creating
a nuisance, were abolished, and more modern and sanitary ones
substituted; several water closets badly situated were done away
with, and others improved in the matter of ventilation and light.
The number of premises which have been inspected up to the
present time (the end of May, 1894) is 1,641, and out of these, 1,312
were found to have defects. There are a few more still remaining
which will have to be examined; but, practically speaking, the
inspection is finished.
Of the above houses in which defects were found, the necessary
measures to remedy them have been carried out in 811 instances,
thus leaving 501 incompleted; but about 157 of this incompleted
number belong to the Adelphi area, and therefore nothing could be
done to these houses until the proposed new sewers have been
finished in that locality.
The above figures just quoted, and if tabulated as follows, will
render them more easily understood:—
Number of houses inspected in which defects were found 1,312
Number of houses inspected in which no defects were found 329
Total number of houses inspected 1,641
Deduct from the total number of defective houses those wherein
the necessary works have been completed, and the result will give
the figures of those still to be finished:—
Total number of defective houses 1,312
Defective houses in which the works have been completed 811
501
This, therefore, leaves 501 houses still incompleted; but, as
before stated, about 157 of them belong to the Adelphi area, and
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