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(17.) The joints of the soil pipes, ventilating pipes, rain water pipes, and all
other pipes discharging into the drain shall be made air-tight.
(18.) Every water-closet shall be provided with suitable apparatus for effectually
flushing the basin which shall be of such a shape as will be self-cleansing with the
flush of water discharged into it.—Note. The Yestry disapprove of "D "traps,
and pan closets.
Note.—The Vestry are empowered to open ground to inspect any drain, or works
connected therewith, that may be covered over. In order to avoid the annoyance
and inconvenience occasioned by opening ground and uncovering work,
persons executing such work when it is ready for covering, should forthwith
give notice to that effect to the Surveyor to the Vestry, when it will be
inspected in due course.
If on inspection of any work ordered by the Vestry it is found that the
order of the Vestry has been departed from in any particular, the person so
offending is liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds ; and if such person,
after notice from the Vestry, neglect to amend such work, the Vestry may
amend it at the expense of the person so offending.
REFUSE REMOVAL.
The removal of street refuse or slopping is carried out under the supervision
of the Works Department. Stable and cowshed refuse or manure is collected
by private contract, the Health Department enforcing its removal by occupiers,
in accordance with the regulations, and trade refuse also, with few exceptions, is
removed by private contract. The removal of domestic refuse has now become
the duty of your Health Department. It is most desirable that the collection and
removal of trade, and also of stable refuse should be kept distinct and separate
from that of domestic refuse, and it would much simplify the dusting contract if it
were unencumbered and separate contracts drawn for other purposes.
The manner in which the dusting of the parish is carried on, under the
present contraot, entails a great loss of time by the Sanitary Inspectors, as each
complaint must be attended to in detail, and it is utterly impossible to properly
control the dust men and carts, on account of the absence of any proper system of
periodical collection. A regular periodical house to house collection is the only
system under which the dusting of the parish can be adequately controlled and
efficiently worked. Some difference of opinion may be expressed as to the period
of time desirable to adopt, daily, bi-weekly, or weekly, but any interval longer than
a week would be out of harmony with prevailing public opinion.
The Polling Districts of the four Divisions of the Parish form blocks of
convenient size, according to area, houses, and population, for the purpose of
organising the system.
It is most important to note that whether your Vestry undertakes the dusting
or contracts with others to carry it out, the same organised system is necessary as a
basis, and the points more requisite may be noted seriatim.
Every contractor shall be supplied with a list of the streets and other places
in each of the Polling Districts of the Division.
These streets and other places shall be numbered or arranged on the list in
the order in which the dust must be removed from them, the order being consecutive
according to contiguity, and this order shall be strictly adhered to by the
contractor, the dustmen and the dust carts.
Every Monday morning a dust cart shall commence at the street or other
place numbered one or first on the list, and call at and collect from every