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element in this outcry. Bake-houses must always be in
the nature of things, to a certain extent, unhealthy. If
there are however any insanitary conditions present which
are capable of removal, we have ample power under the
Public Health Act and the bye-laws framed by the County
Council, to effect it without the necessity of further
legislation.
Under the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, for the
purpose of relieving a certain class of property of the
Inhabited House Duty Tax, I was called upon to examine
some houses in Roskell Terrace. These houses are built
in flats, and each flat is a separate tenement with separato
saintary conveniences. I was satisfied with these arrangements
and was thus able to give a certificate for exemption
from this tax.
In the list of sanitary operations undertaken throughout
the year there are 377 unclassified nuisances. This list
includes the following:—
34 to provide a separate water supply for drinking purposes.
64 to repair soil pipe.
44 to repair ventilating pipe.
7 to provide proper receptacles for manure.
8 to repair water pipe.
2 to provide watercloset accommodation.
85 to repair dust-bins.
28 to trap waste pipe of sink.
7 to discontinue keeping animals so as to be a nuisance.
1 privy abolished.
I have inspected, as usual, all cow-houses and slaughterhouses
in the sub-district. They were found to be in a
satisfactory condition.
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