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The list or lists may, if thought fit, relate to the dwelling houses within a
defined area of the district without specifying each house separately therein.
The Officer making the inspection of any dwelling house shall examine the
state thereof in relation to the following matters, viz.:—
1. The arrangements for preventing the contamination of the water
supply.
2. Closet accommodation.
3. Drainage.
4. The condition of the dwelling house in regard to light, the free
lation of air, dampness, and cleanliness.
5. The paving, drainage, and sanitary condition of any yard or outhouses
belonging to or occupied with the dwelling house.
6. The arrangements for the deposit of refuse and ashes.
7. The existence of any room which would in pursuance of Sub-section 7
ot' Section 17 of the Act of 1909 be a dwelling house so dangerous or
injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation.
8. Any defects in other matters which may tend to render the dwelling
house dangerous or injurious to the health of an inhabitant.
Records of such inspection are to be prepared under the direction and supervision
of the Medical Officer of Health.
In considering as to the carrying out of these matters, your Council
had their attention directed by the Medical Officer of Health to the fact that
there were about 2,365 houses in the Borough on the Register of Houses Let
in Lodgings which, in addition to the houses on the InscribedXist, were already
periodically inspected, and he proposed that the whole of the houses in the
streets in which the majority of the registered and the inscribed houses were
situated should be taken as those areas which should be selected for inspection
under the provisions of the Town Planning Act.
He had selected the streets in that manner for inclusion in the list, and there
were found to be 3,834 houses therein.
In regard to the inspection of the drainage of the houses as required by the
Regulations, your Council were of opinion that the word "drainage" therein
could not reasonably be interpreted to mean the testing of all the drains of every
house every six months, but to refer to the general inspection of its conditions
which would only lead to testing if there were nuisances suggesting obvious
defects or some complaint made revealing obvious nuisance.
The following arrangements for carrying out the duties above referred to
were approved and adopted by the Borough Council on the loth May, 1912:—
(a) That the whole of the houses in the streets in which the majority of
the houses are at present registered or inscribed for the purpose of
half-yearly inspection, as drawn up by the Medical Officer of Health,
be adopted as the. areas to be inspected half-yearly, or as nearly so as
possible, by the Sanitary Inspectors.