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" Opened the gully taking the slop sink in the nursery bathroom,
where it was found that the drain pipes were badly laid with rough
cement joints and without concrete.
" Opened the drain near the glass house where it was found to be of
6in. pipes, patched up, with only surface joints in cement, but with
water running from the joints at the time it was opened.
Infectious
Disease
Cottage.
" Opened the drain at the south side of the infectious hospital,
where it was found to be of 6in. pipes. The branch drain from the
gully is not provided with any proper junction or connection, but the
branch joins the larger drains by means of a hole cut into the pipe
This drain so far as examined is found to be without joints and
imperfectly fitted.
EVAN RICHARDS,
Sanitary Inspector.
ISAAC R. JONES,
Sanitary Inspector.
26th June. 1907.
Following the consideration of these reports, further correspondence
with the Guardians ensued, resulting in my meeting
Mr. H. G. Pearson, of the Architects' Department of the Local
Government Board, at the Workhouse, on July 25th, and fully
explaining to him the position as it then stood.
After further correspondence, explanations and the delays that
seem inseparable from business matters of this nature, the Guardians
definitely decided not to entertain the idea of entering into any
contract, or calling in an independent Surveyor, as recommended at the
Council Meeting in May. Their former request, that the work should
be carried out by your department, was renewed.