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appliances were but too commonly found to be defective in
construction or in condition. In illustration of this statement,
I subjoin the substance of the Inspectors' reports of a few of
the houses inspected, as follows :—
1. Rainwater pipe connected direct into drain, and head thereof close to
room window ; inefficient bell trap in yard ; waste pipe of sink direct
into drain and head of tame close to room window; both w.c.'s
badly supplied with water and foul and offensive ; soil pipe defective
and unventilated ; waste pipe of bath insufficiently trapped.
2. Waste pipe of sink in direct communication with drain; rainwater
pipe combined with soil pipe, and head of same close to room
window ; inefficient bell trap in yard; ashpit defective and insufficiently
covered ; both W.C.'s insufficiently supplied with water
and foul and offensive ; slop sink insufficiently trapped.
3. Rainwater pipes (3) in direct communication with drain, and heads
of same in too close proximity to living-room windows; inefficient
bell trap in yard ; lower w.c. insufficiently supplied with water,
and supply pipe (apparently) connected with drinking water cistern :
no ashpit; soil pipe defective and unventilated; top w.c. foul and
offensive and insufficiently supplied wioh water.
4. Offensive pan closet on third floor ; lavatory waste connected to soil
pipe; w,c. in basement without water supply; rainwater pipe connected
to soil pipe, and back addition rainwater pipe connected to
drain ; drain not properly trapped from sewer or ventilated.
5. No water supply to basement w.c.; rainwater pipe connected to soil
pipe; back addition rainwater pipe connected to drain; offensive
pan closet on first floor landing in connection with drinking water
cistern; lavatory waste pipe connected to soil pipe; interiors of
both drinking water cisterns dirty ; drains not properly trapped
from sewer or ventilated.
The two streets in which these houses lie are of a superior
class, oue of them however, being of much older date than
the other. It is manifest that nothing but good for the
occupiers can come of such inspections, followed as they are
by notices for the abatement of the nuisances implied in
the existence of sanitary defects so obvious and dangerous
as those above set out.