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170
Underground rooms illegally occupied 9
Accumulations of manure 14
Defective traps and stopped gullies 37
Sinks connected direct to drains 16
Mica valves defective 28
Light and air spaces limited 201
Dilapidated Premises 95
Sundry minor defects, viz.: Defective fire-places (25),
coppers (14) and chimneys (5) 44
Total 4381
Under the House-to-House Inspections Regulations, or
Order, of 2nd September, 1910, certain classifications are
adopted, so as to secure uniformity of statistics throughout
the various districts and, adopting this classification, the
results in connection with the 1,576 houses inspected during
1912 may be tabulated as follows:—
i. Arrangements for preventing contamination of
Water Supplies.
(a) Drinking water from the main 1531
(b) Drinking water from cisterns 45
(c) Cisterns uncovered, or improperly covered 21
(d) Defective water taps 18
ii. Water Closet Accommodation.
(a) Defective water closets 73
(b) Foul water closets 62
(c) Water closets insufficiently lighted and
ventilated 24
(d) Defective water closet flushing apparatus 91
(e) Defective, or deficient, ventilating or soil
pipes 32