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further supplemented during the past year by the completion
of 42,886 feet of new sewerage. It is almost
needless to add that these yearly additions to the main
drainage of the District cannot fail to have eventually a
most important bearing upon the public health of all the
Sub-districts, and requires only the adoption of a more
effective system of ventilation to render that which has
been completed as perfect as it is possible to make it. The
Medical Officers of Health, however, regret to find so little
progress made in the investigation and settlement of that
important question—How best to overcome the injurious
effects of sewer emanations in the public thoroughfares?
For the opinions of the Health Officers upon this subject,
the reader is referred to several of their former Reports.
Removal and Abatement of Nuisances.—In the removal
or abatement of nuisances, the usual perseverance and
energy has been displayed by the Surveyors and Inspectors
throughout the District, and it is gratifying to find that
comparatively few appeals to magisterial interference have
been necessitated.
Licensed Slaughter and Cow Houses.—The supervision
and inspection of these places throughout the District was
in the past year followed by very satisfactory results,
since it was found that all the proprietors had evinced so
great a regard for their own interests, as to give the
Medical Officers of Health very little, if any grounds, for
complaint. Every suggested improvement was well
received and willingly carried out, hence all applications
for the renewal of licenses, being unopposed, were granted
by the magistrates.
In the Local Summaries which follow these introductory
remarks, as well as in Table VI. Appendix, will be found
other important Sanitary proceedings, so fully referred to
as to render further allusion to them unnecessary.
Water Supply.—Although it must be admitted that
the water supply by the Companies has undergone
some improvement since the issue of the Royal Commissioners'
Report, the constant system ought still to
be insisted on. A strong argument in favour of this system
is, that most of the existing receptacles, even those adopted