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Public Health Department,
December 31st, 1905.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Sir,—
I beg to submit to you my tenth Annual Report of the
sanitary work carried out in my district (East Combined Division)
during the past year ended 31st December, 1905.
1,642 premises have been inspected, 1,273 in answer to complaints
of nuisances, 198 on account of Notification of Infectious
Diseases, the remainder being 171 House-to-House Inspections.
Of the above total number of inspections the drains of 339
premises have been tested with either smoke or chemical drain
testers, and 118 found to be defective (not gastight), and in 221
instances the tests revealed no defects, 986 premises were found
to be in good condition (see tabulated list for defects).
House-to-House Inspections have been carried out in the whole
of the following streets:—
Albert Street. Surrey Place.
Gray Street. Warrington Place.
Greenfield Street. Willis Street
Lee Passage.
I have completed the list you had prepared of houses which
had not been inspected, and which did not appear in the Journals
for the last 11 years; in, some cases the drains were found to be
defective, combined with other sanitary defects.