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376 syphon traps Lave been fixed, and 523 water
closets cleansed, repaired, or had water laid on.
The Table gives further details, and an examination
will show the stride sanitation is making in the District.
Bakehouses.
The necessary limewhiting and cleansing of
bakehouses throughout the parish have been regularly
carried out and the same duly inspected.
Wells.
Samples of the water from all the known wells
have been analysed during the year, and in consequence
of the polluted condition of the water, the wells have
in some cases been voluntarily closed. In other cases
proceedings are to be taken with a view to enforcing
such closure. The Company's water supply has been
laid on to all the houses supplied by these wells.
Two of the wells in question have been held in high
estimation by the surrounding inhabitants, and many
have come from long distances to partake of the cool and
sparkling water. In the one case the water was much
polluted and the other was of questionable character,
and a further sample is to be taken shortly.
Diseased
Meat.
On the evening of the 3rd October, Inspector
.brown brought me some lambs plucks for examination,
having obtained them from a butcher, believing the
lungs to be tubercular.
The lungs were covered with pale looking elevations,
which when cut into were found to be cystic in character,
the contents under the microscope proved to be
crowded with the entozoa of the strongylus filaria.
The symptoms of this parasitic disease are well known