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drain under carriage way at a point about midway
from the entrance in Cambridge Road to the
Medical Superintendent's residence. A new gully
and connection provided and branch made good.
(6) Choked gully and drain necessitating opening to clear
and making good near the Boiler House.
The works referred to in Nos. 1 to 6 above will with the
provision of several gully grids and some minor details be
entirely additional to the ordinary work of Hushing and cleansing
and has of necessity entailed a greater cost than the sum
estimated in my letter of the 25th August already referred to.
Altogether I have discovered nothing that would go to
justify any attempt to raise a foolish scare about the Infirmary
drainage. The various alterations that have been made at
several points during the past ten years or since the opening
of the Institution are not of so good a quality or workmanship
as the original construction and have certainly not enhanced
the sanitary conditions of the whole.
These works emphasize more strongly than anything I can
add the real necessity of insisting that whenever any
sanitary works are required at any point whether such works
may be mere local repairs necessary to remove a stoppage,
the relaying of a sunken (or other) branch drain, the provision
of an additional chamber or the refitting of a sanitary
convenience, such works should be carried out under proper
supervision on approved lines and with attention to the fact
that to whatever extent the same may be necessary it must be
carried out in strict relation to the whole. To patch a bit here
and to fix an odd fitting there means neither more nor less
than the damaging of the entire system.
Assuring you at all times of the best assistance of my
Authority and its department.
1 am, Dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
JOHN FOOT."