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particularly, needed cleansing and limewashing, 1 requiring a
proper ash receptacle, and 3 required the w.c. apparatus attending
to, leaving 6 other minor defects.
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts. Fifty-seven applications
were received during the year for certificates under these
Acts. Certificates were granted in 8 cases and refused in the
remaining 49 cases.
Housing of the Working Classes. Premises have been
found to be overcrowded in 25 cases, which have all been abated,
and in 4 cases the illegal use of underground rooms has been
discontinued. Three hundred and seventy-four houses have
been generally repaired; 202 premises have been cleansed, limewashed,
and repaired ; 29 have been improved as regards their
ventilation; 206 premises have had the walls and ceilings
cleansed throughout, and 224 premises have been partially
cleansed; leaky house roofs and gutters have been repaired in
283 cases; nuisances from dampness have been abated in 106
cases; dampness of walls have been remedied in 81 cases;
direct connection between the internal sanitary fittings of houses
and the drain have been disconnected, trapped, and amended in
209 cases; similarly 138 stack pipes have been disconnected
trapped, and amended; 1 house has been abolised as unfit for
habitation; and want of underfloor ventilation has also been
attended to in 1 case.
The Clerk of the Roan Schools Foundation forwarded to this
Council a communication desiring the proposal of a scheme under
the Housing of the Working Classes Act to deal with certain
premises at the corner of Church Street and Roan Passage ; this
was referred to your Medical Officer of Health who made a