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a person of more or less limited means. The house
is too large for the person renting it, and he seeks to
recover part of his rent by subdetting the rooms
which are not required. The landlord of the property
looks to the tenant for the rent of the house, and the
landlord ot' the lettings to the sub-tenants for their
share of the weekly rent.
These houses rapidly deteriorate from the point of
view of cleanliness and minor structural deficiencies.
In due course the landlord of the lettings is served
with a notice to effect an improvement, but owing to
insufficient means, considerable difficulty is experienced
in getting the necessary improvements attended to.
Drainage Plans.—150 plans were submitted to
the Medical Officer of Health with regard to proposed
reconstruction of water-closets or drains in the City.
Of these 139 were approved, 6 revised and improved,
and 5 not approved.
OTHER DETAILS:
The substitution of street gullies has been continued.
The supervision of over-crowding has been maintained.
Notification of Sanitary defects in association with
outbreaks of infectious disease, supervision of
sanitary conveniences provided at railway stations,
summer flushing of courts, limewashing of courts,
and the supervision of hairdressers' and barbers' shops,
as well as observations of smoke and atmospheric
pollution, have been continued.