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In addition to the 21 miles of main and branch sewerage
already in full operation in this Sub-district, 2,000 feet of
new work in the same direction has been completed during
the year. Of the utility of this great work there cannot
be two opinions. That its efficiency will be thoroughly
maintained we have the fullest assurance in the knowledge
we possess of the competency of the hands to which its
superintendence has been intrusted. Our present able
Surveyor, I feel assured, will yield to no one in his desire
to reap every possible advantage from this costly undertaking,
and if the operation of flushing be but earnestly
and constantly carried out, few will be disposed to doubt
that results will follow fully justifying the money outlay
that has been made in bringing the entire system of local
drainage into such excellent working order as it is known
to be at the present time.
The Water Supply of the Sub-district.—I can add but
very little to the observations I have already made upon
this important matter in former Reports, but I will venture
to remark that, if the promises exacted from the
Water Companies who supply the District be fulfilled, a
rather large instalment of the requirements of the Government
Commission, and of that which the public so earnestly
demands, will be secured—but I greatly doubt it.
Slaughter and Cow Houses.—In compliance with the
order of the District Board at the usual period for renewing
the licences to the slaughter and cow houses within
this Sub-district, the Surveyor and myself carefully inspected
all the premises devoted to the above purposes,
and reported on the same to the Board I am pleased to
state that no licence was opposed, nor any complaints
made of proprietors failing to supply their premises with
every requisite sanitary appliance.
JOHN MAC DONOGH,
Medical Officer of Health for Clapham.