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oonneoted from direot communication with the drains, chiefly in
the same houses as those wherein the bell-traps were removed.
Also 249 stack pipes were similarly treated in oases where the
hopper heads were near to windows.
The number of yards in which the paving was repaired, or
relaid, reached 852, which was somewhat above the total for 1886 ;
and for dust-bins repaired or new ones provided, 742, against
617 in 1886. The number of houses whitewashed and cleansed
was 1,602, against 1,678, and means of ventilation improved,
31 against 10, making a total for improvements of this class of
3,227, against 3,120 in 1886. As might have been expected, the
number of closets to which a supply of water was enforced
diminished in 1887 to 178, against 205 in 1886, but of houses
in which flushing boxes to the closets were newly provided was
104, being considerably more than in former years. The closets
found with defective apparatus for flushing were far more
numerous than in 1886, as for no less than 1,050 was it necessary
to serve notioes for their repair. In a large proportion of oases
the water in the supply pipes had been frozen in the winter, and
been knooked up by the tenants, but not repaired by the owners;
in comparatively few cases, however, the defects had been caused
by violence. In 396 houses, where the supply of drinking water
was obtained from a cistern supplying the closet, although the
water was in the "main," a length of pipe with a tap was added
so as to enable the consumers to obtain water direct from the
main. Improvements in the water supply or water supply
apparatus to houses amounted to the large number of 1731.
Although scarlet fever was prevalent, the number of houses
disinfeoted by the staff was not so numerous as in some former
years, as in many cases disinfection was carried out under
the direction of the medical attendant, who certified that it had
been done to his satisfaction; but there were 367 houses disinfected
by the officers of the Board. The total number of nuisanoes abated
amounted to 9,698. In addition, 1,278 requests to remove
aooumulations of dust were specially attended to, including