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abolish the cistern except for flushing water-closets,
is one of the most urgent sanitary reforms in the
immediate future, and we beg to call your earnest
and continued attention to it.
Sanitary Operations A study of Table IV. in the Appendix
of the Year will give a clearer understanding of
the detailed sanitary work carried out in each subdistrict
than any verbal description. The attention
paid to defects of house-drainage is steadily increasing,
and there can be no doubt that the action taken by
the Board through its officers, is having an influential
educative effect on builders, plumbers, and others concerned
in house.construction and drainage. Abundant
powers exist for the enforcement of all items detailed
in Table IV., though it is highly satisfactory that in so
few instances it has been necessary to appeal to the slow
and cumbrous machinery of the law.