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when in operation and readily blocked up by road debris.
Some form of upcast shaft to carry the gaseous contents
of the sewers far above the house level should be devised
and put in operation, and if practicable such gases should
be so treated by heating, washing, disinfection or some
analogous process as to become inoffensive and not
dangerous either from their own toxic constituents or as
carriers of disease germs.
The question of the removal of house refuse has been so
constantly before the Local and Sanitary Committees
and the Board during the year, that it is unnecessary for
me to refer to the subject except to say, that the necessity
for the more frequent removal of such refuse was the
subject of much unanimity of opinion, which will doubtless
have the result of effecting great changes in that
direction.
The Board has during the year made regulations
applicable to tents and vans used for human habitation,
with valuable results. A report of the Chief Inspector
of Nuisances dated November 2nd, 1885, upon the result
of an inspection of such habitations, shewed overcrowding
of the worst kind. Thus in one instance a
man and several children were found to sleep in a van
with but 84 cubic feet of air per adult, and half that
amount for the children. One cistern of 57 gallons
capacity served for 23 persons, many of different families.
The vans were cleanly but ill ventilated, but the tents
were dirty, damp and crowded to excess. The regulations
will, when in force, remedy these defects.
Bakehouses. These have all been properly inspected
twice at least during the year and the necessary cleansing
and lime.whiting duly attended to. The whole of the+