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One inquest was held in which a verdict was returned—
found dead.
SanitaryProceedings
during the
year.
Table XIII. in the introductory portion of this
report gives a great deal of information in
regard to the daily routine of Sanitary work
carried on through the year. Year after year it shows
a very great increase in the amount of this work. During
the year 1888, 2,686 houses were inspected, while during
during 1890 there were 4,069 houses.
Another well used for supplying drinking water had
to be closed on account of the water being so impure as
to be injurious to health. In the Parish there are a
great many wells in which the water is in a more or less
suspicious state. In some cases these wells are within
a few feet from the drain pipe leading from the house.
Hitherto the power to shut up suspicious wells has been
very defective. By the Sanitary Act of 1874 such wells
could only be closed when they were shown at the
moment to be so polluted as to be dangerous to health.
By the Public Health Law Amendment Act of this session
however, the Local Authority has power to close wells
when they are shown to be likely to be polluted, as well
as when actually polluted. This provision is very
necessary, as it is well known that wells liable to be
contaminated do not always show the same amount of
pollution. In these cases several analyses might require
to be made before the pollution reached the standard
necessary for the closing of the well.