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employed in erecting the buildings. Notices were
served by instruction of your Public Health Committee,
requiring the removal of the offensive accumulations
that had taken place and the provision of temporary
accommodation for the workmen. These Notices
were promptly complied with, but from time to time
it was found to be necessary to serve further Notices
for nuisances occurring in other parts of the grounds.
Under instruction of your Committee, special reports
were presented by two of your Sanitary Inspectors
giving detailed particulars as to the sanitary accommodation
provided or proposed to be provided for each
of the buildings in the Exhibition, and also information
as to the proposed number of employees who
would use the accommodation. Your Public Health
Committee appointed a Sub-Committee to visit the
Exhibition and take into consideration the efficiency
and sufficiency of the accommodation for employees.
The Sub-Committee spent a very considerable amount
of time in carefully considering as to the accommodation
provided both as to efficiency and sufficiency.
Altogether 132 Notices were served upon the Exhibition
Authorities, and upon the Concessionaires, with
the object of improving the sanitary condition of the
Exhibition, and in every case your requirements were
immediately complied with. The work of supervising
so large an Exhibition involved an immense amount
of extra labour, which had to be carried out by your
Public Health Staff without any additional assistance.
The question was subsequently considered as
to your Council's power to require sufficient sanitary
accommodation for the public use. In the first place
your Committee recognised the futility of estimating
beforehand what amount would be necessary as it
was evident that it would depend on the number of
persons who would visit the Exhibition, and they
were also of opinion that they were not legally