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Recommendations.—To meet this serious condition of
things, I make the following recommendations:
I. That all the drains in this district which have not
already been tested, should forthwith be tested with
the smoke machine.
II. That the Surveyor should be asked to report how the
sewerage of this district can be improved.
III. That all new drains, and drains re-laid in this
district, should be tested with the water test, as is
commonly done in other places.
IV. That a lady Sanitary Inspector be appointed to act
in this and other poor parts of the Parish. Her
duties would be—to visit all houses where infectious
diseases occurred, and explain the measures to be
taken; to advise tenants as to cleanliness and
personal hygiene, especially with regard to infants;
to enquire as to overcrowding and other insanitary
conditions and report on the same.
If recommendation I. is carried out, the time of one
Sanitary Inspector will be fully occupied for some time to
come in drain testing, so that it will be necessary for that
reason alone to appoint an additional Inspector."
(This concludes the Report on the Reidhaven Road District).
57.—The Surveyor is engaged in making some improvements
in the Reidhaven Road Sewer, but the other recommendations
for improving this district still remain to be carried out.
58. I have recently become aware that some of the houses
in this district, probably a large proportion, are built on a
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