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66
Sanitary
proceedings
of the year.
During the past year 3,441 houses and
premises have been inspected, as compared
with 2,270 in the previous year. The
thoroughness of this inspection may he gathered from
the fact that in 1,517 instances notices required to be
served to remedy sanitary defects. In nearly a thousand
cases these notices were within a reasonable time complied
with; but in 532 instances, secord notices were
required; and of these 21 were finally brought before
the Magistrate to enforce the carrying out of the necessary
work. The investigation of the result of first and second
notices required frequent visits of the Inspectors, which
are not included in the 3,441 total inspections standing
at the head of Table IV. in Appendix.
A study of this Table (page 117) will bring out the
detailed sanitary work which is being done in this subdistrict.
It will be seen that in 1,120 instances
syphon traps were fixed to the drains of houses already
occupied; 497 sinks and 135 bath and lavatory-wastes
were altered to discharge over gullies; 184 rain-water
pipes were disconnected from drains; 200 water-closets
had a water-supply laid on to them; 261 yards were
drained and paved; 203 leaky house-roofs and gutters
were repaired; 548 water cisterns were covered and
repaired; and 143 cistern overflow-pipes were disconnected
from drains. Ten wells were closed, and
attention is particularly called to Dr. Muter's weighty
remarks at page 109 (which apply particularly to
Clapliam).
Two hundred and sixty-two "unclassified" nuisances
were removed, which included 65 defective waterfittings,
10 closets ventilated or rebuilt, 78 water-closet
air pipes removed from inside cisterns, 24 closet windows
made to open, 37 ventilating-pipes altered or repaired,
24 new ventilating-pipes constructed to house-drains,
&c., &c.