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Insanitary damp dwellings can be remedied by damp
courses and the removal of defects and nuisances.
Instructions can be given so that mothers will be
encouraged to breast-feed their children. This can be
done by official and voluntary agencies who will also
supervise the hygienic conditions of the home.
Refuse from houses and street refuse can and should
be removed in covered carts and not deposited in the
streets for collection, as is sometimes done. The streets
should be sufficiently watered, especially in the summer,
and particulary in the neighbourhood of shops.
Open spaces can be provided as opportunities offer,
and cottage baths in the poor quarters can and should be
provided by the Council at a nominal charge of 1d. per
person, so as to encourage cleanliness, and supply the
wants of many people.
Another matter which may possibly affect the question
under consideration, and which should be remedied, is the
large amount of defective road channelling and curbing
which allows pools of stagnant water to accumulate in the
roadways. This is daily evident in the poorer streets.
These are simply a few of the lines on which we can
work, the details of which, and the extension of the same
should be left to the Public Health Department.
The Committee concur in the report above set out, and
they have considered the manner in which certain of the suggestions
therein contained can be brought into force. As a
result they find that many of the matters assigned by the Medical